Article
The role of rotaviruses in pediatric diarrhea.
Pediatric infectious disease - 1 Jan 2000
Flores J, Nakagomi O, Nakagomi T, Glass R, Gorziglia M, Askaa J, Hoshino Y, Perez-Schael I, Kapikian A Z
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Although rotavirus has been recognized as the most common etiologic agent of gastroenteritis in infants requiring hospitalization, there are several important gaps in the understanding of rotavirus infection. Obstacles to such an understanding have included difficulties in cultivating the virus from human stools, the lack of a simple animal model to examine the immune response, and differences in the...
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