Winter diarrhoea and rotaviruses in Rhodesia

Cruickshank, J.G.; Zilberg, G.

South African Medical Journal 50(47): 1895-1896

1976


ISSN/ISBN: 0256-9574
PMID: 1006454
Document Number: 97191
In the winter fewer bacterial pathogens are isolated from patients with gastro-enteritis than in the summer. The incidence of rotavirus infection is, however, at its greatest during the winter months and the virus is rarely found in cases of gastro-enteritis which occur during the warm season. The clinical pattern in winter diarrhoea is characteristically severe and acute but there has been no mortality or cross-infection.

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