[Virological and serological characteristics of outbreaks and sporadic cases of acute gastroenteritis].
Specimens from patients with gastroenteritis (GE) collected during outbreaks and from sporadic cases reported in the USSR in 1979-1984 were examined by electron microscopy (EM), enzyme immunoassay, rotavirus neutralization test in cell culture. All the winter-spring outbreaks and a considerable number (34.9%) of sporadic GE cases were caused by rotaviruses. The summer-autumn outbreaks were of non-rotavirus nature. In water-borne winter-spring outbreaks in adults, severe forms of GE with signs of dehydration were observed. Among infants, cases of virus-carrier state were detected. The rate of rotavirus detection by EM in winter-spring outbreaks depended on the time of specimen collection and decreased after 4 days from the onset of the disease. Apart from rotaviruses, adeno-, astro-, calici-, coronaviruses, and picornavirus-like particles were detected by EM in feces from GE patients.
V I
VI
Khaustov
L A
LA
Shekoian
M B
MB
Korolev
L L
LL
Mironova
M A
MA
Donets
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D002648:Child; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D009500:Neutralization Tests; D012621:Seasons; D012698:Serologic Tests; D014586:USSR; D014771:Virion / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*
D000914:Antibodies, Viral
Virusologicheskaia i serologicheskaia kharakteristika vspyshek i sporadicheskikh sluchaev ostrogo gastroénterita.