BACKGROUND Rotavirus gastroenteritis is a prevalent childhood illness rarely complicated by secondary bacterial sepsis. Although there are case reports of septicemia after rotavirus infection, there are no recent reviews on this topic. OBJECTIVES To add new cases of septicemia after rotavirus to the literature, review the few cases of septicemia after rotavirus that have been reported, calcul...

The concomitant occurrence of a case of haemolytic-uraemic syndrome (HUS) and 62 cases of mild gastroenteritis in schools of a small rural community in southern Italy induced the health authorities to suspect a foodborne outbreak of shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection. The schools were closed and the catering service involved was investigated. However, STEC were not isolated...

Rotavirus gastroenteritis is a highly contagious, acute viral disease that imposes a significant health burden worldwide. In Japan, rotavirus vaccines have been commercially available since 2011 for voluntary vaccination, but vaccine coverage and effectiveness have not been evaluated. In the absence of a vaccination registry in Japan, vaccination coverage in the general population was estimated...

BACKGROUND Uncertainty exists regarding the use of zinc in the treatment of acute gastroenteritis in children living in Europe, where zinc deficiency is rare. AIM To review evidence for the effectiveness of zinc in treating acute gastroenteritis in children, with special emphasis on data from developed countries. METHODS MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library were searched through Novemb...

Background: The proportion of households that use tank rainwater as their main source of drinking water is similar to the proportion using reticulated public mains supplies in South Australia. However, little is known about risk to health from consuming rainwater. Aims: (1) To determine whether the risk of gastroenteritis among children who drank tank rainwater differed from that of children wh...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This study was performed to compare the clinical features between febrile convulsions and benign convulsions associated with viral gastroenteritis. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 706 children admitted to the Sunlin Hospital for either febrile convulsions or benign convulsions with viral gastroenteritis, between January 1, 2006, and December 3...

Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory condition of diverse etiology. Exposure to foodborne pathogens causing acute gastroenteritis produces a long-term risk of CD well into the post-infectious period but the mechanistic basis for this ongoing relationship to disease onset is unknown. We developed two novel models to study the comorbidity of acute gastroenteritis caused by Salmonella Ty...

PURPOSE To investigate the differences in clinical features and laboratory findings between group D and non-group D non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) gastroenteritis in children. METHODS A retrospective chart review of children diagnosed with NTS confirmed by culture study was performed. The clinical features and laboratory findings of group D and non-group D NTS were compared. RESULTS From 20...

BACKGROUND Rotaviruses are the most important cause of severe acute gastroenteritis worldwide in children <5 years of age. The human, G1P[8] rotavirus vaccine Rotarix™ significantly reduced severe rotavirus gastroenteritis episodes in a Phase III clinical trial conducted in infants in South Africa and Malawi. This paper examines rotavirus vaccine efficacy in preventing severe rotavirus gastroen...

To The Editor : In their paper, Stein-Zamir et al. describe populationbased, age-specific epidemiological trends of enteric bacterial infections in children in the Jerusalem district in Israel during 1990–2008 [1]. Overall, during the study period Shigella was the leading bacterial pathogen, especially in children aged <5 years. Shigella infections were characterized by an endemicepidemic patte...