Winter diarrhoea and rotaviruses in Rhodesia.
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.
D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012087:Reoviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012621:Seasons; D015030:Zimbabwe