very effective for detecting and assaying rotaviruses. A plaque reduction neutralization test, crossprotection studies in gnotobiotic pigs, and electrophoresis of rotaviral double-stranded RNA were used for comparing viruses. Three strains produced plaques on initial isolation attempts, replicated well in cell cultures, and were antigenically very similar. We suggest that these three strains be...

TESTPACK ROTAVIRUS, a simple 10 min enzyme immunoassay, was compared with reversed passive hemagglutination assay (RPHA) and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of virus RNA (RNA-PAGE) for the detection of rotaviral antigens in feces from 104 diarrheal children. The results of TESTPACK ROTAVIRUS were identical with those of RNA-PAGE. Discordant results of RPHA were further examined by latex aggl...

Human rotaviruses are the most important etiologic agents of acquired diarrhoea in infants and young children worldwide. Rotavirus diarrhoea is more frequent during the winter. Limited reports are available from India about diarrhoea due to rotavirus. Some reports of rotaviral diarrhoea in children between 1 month 4 years of age are available. Therefore, we studied the prevalence of rotaviral d...

Necrotizing enterocolitis is common in preterm and low birth weight infants but rare beyond the neonatal period. Various infectious agents including bacterial and viral organisms have been implicated in its pathogenesis. Rotavirus has recently been shown to be associated with necrotizing enterocolitis. In this report we describe two irlfants with congenital cardiac disease who developed ficlmin...