evaluation of rapid diagnostic methods for pediatric viral diarrhea using samples collected in nepal and japan. | we evaluated real time pcr, elisa and immunochromatography (icg) test systems for detection of diarrheagenic viruses (rotavirus, adenovirus and norovirus) in pediatric diarrheal fecal samples collected in kathmandu, nepal (n = 23) and in kobe, japan (n = 25) in summer of 2004. of the 23 samples collected in nepal, one (4.3%) was positive for rotavirus and two (8.7%) for adenovirus whereas six out of 25 samples (24.0%) collected in japan were positive for norovirus. of the japanese samples, 11 (4 ... | 2004 | 16295734 |