title: [Significance of adenovirus infections in infancy and early childhood].
abstract: Of 418 stool specimens of infants tested, 45 specimens contained adenoviruses, mainly the types 1 and 2, 40 and 41. Infections by these types caused symptoms of the gastrointestinal and the respiratory tract to varying degrees: adenoviruses 40 and 41 frequently caused gastroenteritis, adeno 2 was often associated with diarrhoea, adeno 1 mostly caused illness of the respiratory tract necessitating hospitalization of the infants. As adenoviruses may produce--especially during the first years of life--severe diseases of the respiratory and the gastro-intestinal tract, their detection will be of major importance to the pediatrician, the more so as today's methods of detection of adenoviruses are easier and less time-consuming than in the past.
authors.affiliation: Hygiene-Institut des Ruhrgebietes, Gelsenkirchen.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schoenemann
mesh_terms: D000257:Adenoviridae Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D000258:Adenovirus Infections, Human / Q000382:microbiology*; D000260:Adenoviruses, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003968:Diarrhea, Infantile / Q000382:microbiology*; D004751:Enteritis / Q000382:microbiology; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000382:microbiology
vernacular_title: Bedeutung von Adenovirusinfektionen im Säuglings- und Kleinkindesalter.