title: Diagnosis of rotavirus gastroenteritis by smell.
abstract: Clinical features cannot differentiate rotavirus gastroenteritis from other types of diarrhoea. Sixty eight stool specimens were examined by nurses on an infant gastroenteritis ward. Of these, 69% were correctly classified by smell alone. The results are significant (p = 0.009) and support the suggestion that rotavirus stools have a characteristic smell.
authors: East Birmingham Hospital.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Poulton
authors: M J
authors: MJ
authors: Tarlow
mesh_terms: D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012400:Rotavirus Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D012903:Smell