QUESTION As rotavirus vaccines enter the scheduled immunization programs in Canada, more and more of the children younger than 1 year of age in my practice are receiving rotavirus vaccines. Is there evidence that rotavirus vaccines are effective in preventing acute gastroenteritis complications such as dehydration and hospitalization? ANSWER To reduce the burden of illness of rotavirus-induce...

Noroviruses are the leading cause of epidemic gastroenteritis, including foodborne outbreak, in Korea. The prevalence of human noroviruses was studied in diarrheal stool samples of patients with acute gastroenteritis by conventional duplex reverse transcription (RT)-PCR. Diarrheal stool samples were collected from 1,685 patients from the local hospitals in Seoul. The prevalence of the norovirus...

Norovirus is a major cause of acute gastroenteritis. The molecular epidemiology of norovirus exhibits temporal and geographical fluctuations, and new variants of the GII.4 genotype emerge every 2-3 years to cause global epidemics of acute gastroenteritis. We investigated GI and GII genotypes of human norovirus strains isolated from patients with acute gastroenteritis in Korea in 2013. Norovirus...

AIM We aimed to investigate the prevalence of Human Bocavirus isolates among Iranian patients suffering from acute gastroenteritis. BACKGROUND Human Bocavirus is a new parvovirus that has been identified in association with gastroenteritis. Limited data are available about HBoV in Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS Viral DNA was extracted from all 294 stool samples. HBoV DNA was detected in extract...

Acute gastroenteritis is associated with high mortality in childhood. A complication of the illness is dehydration, which should be well managed. This study aimed to analyze the effect of metoclopramide on the number of vomiting episodes in moderately dehydrated children with acute gastroenteritis. In this single-blinded clinical trial, 240 children of 1 to 7 years old with acute viral gastroen...

Noroviruses are, after rotaviruses, the second most common causative agents of acute gastroenteritis in young children. We studied norovirus genotypes in faecal specimens collected from Finnish children followed-up prospectively in rotavirus vaccine trials. Almost 5000 faecal specimens collected from cases of acute gastroenteritis were examined using reverse transcriptase-PCR. A total of 1172 c...

INTRODUCTION Rotavirus remains the leading cause of severe diarrhea in children under 5 years worldwide. In the US, Rotarix (RV1) and RotaTeq (RV5), have been associated with reductions in and severity of rotavirus disease. Studies have evaluated the impact of RV1 or RV5 but little is known about the impact of incomplete or mixed vaccination upon vaccine effectiveness. METHODS Case control st...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Acute gastroenteritis is generally considered a self-limiting illness that does not require the use of antibiotics. However, many emergency departments in the country frequently prescribe antibiotics to patients presenting with diarrhoea. This review attempts to determine whether this practice is reasonable. Our objective was to determine the role of antimicrobials in the...

OBJECTIVE To study the molecular epidemiological characteristics of Norovirus gastroenteritis outbreaks in Zhejiang. METHODS During January 2006 and December 2007, fecal specimens of patients collected from outbreaks of acute viral gastroenteritis were tested for Norovirus. Epidemiological data were also collected. Noroviruses were detected by a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction...

Benign convulsions associated with gastroenteritis are now recognized as a clinical entity, characterized by an acute cluster of afebrile seizures during an episode of mild diarrhoea with excellent prognosis. We observed 30 children who each experienced at least two seizures associated with mild gastroenteritis. The inclusion criteria were: afebrile seizures during gastroenteritis, dehydration ...