| adenoviruses in faeces of children with acute gastroenteritis in rio de janeiro, brazil. | faeces from 746 children less than 5 years old with acute gastroenteritis were screened for the presence of adenovirus particles or antigens by immunoelectron microscopy (iem) and enzyme immunoassay (eia). thirty-five samples were positive by both iem and eia, two only by iem, and two only by eia, giving a total of 39 (5.2%) samples with positive results. of these, 25 could be propagated in hep2 cells and were neutralized by one of the antisera to adenovirus types 1 to 18. the remaining 14 sampl ... | 1985 | 3973570 |