| rotavirus infection in adults. results of a prospective family study. | to study the epidemiologic and clinical features of rotavirus infections, we enrolled 98 families in a prospective study of diarrhea in households with newborn children. families were seen at three-month intervals and whenever ill. the mean follow-up period was 16.4 months. rotavirus infections were documented by electron microscopy of feces, indirect fluorescent-antibody assays in serum or both. the 43 infections identified in adults represented an attack rate of 0.17 per adult per year. ninety ... | 1979 | 221816 |
| gastroenteritis in children: a two-year review in manitoba. i. etiology. | during two years, 1,217 children hospitalized with gastroenteritis at the children's centre in winnipeg, manitoba, canada were studied. bacterial pathogens were present in 25% of these children: enteropathogenic escherichia coli in 120, shigella in 139, salmonella in 24, and multiple pathogens in 18. rotavirus was detected in 54 (11%) of 472 patients examined. rotavirus and enteropathogenic e. coli were the most common pathogens in infants, and shigella was the most common in older children. bac ... | 1977 | 330769 |
| diarrhea among infants and young children in canada: a longitudinal study in three northern communities. | diarrhea among neonates and their siblings was studied in 98 families living in winnipeg, manitoba, and in 31 native indian families and in 15 inuit (eskimo) families living in isolated settlements in northern canada. the rate of infection due to rotavirus in neonates was significantly higher and infection occurred more often in the first six months of life in the northern communities (range, 0.36 in winnipeg to 1.07 in eskimo point). no protective effect of breast-feeding was discerned, since i ... | 1983 | 6302173 |