title: Gastroenteritis due to rotavirus in an isolated Pacific island group: an epidemic of 3,439 cases.
abstract: In the spring of 1964, 3,439 cases of acute gastroenteritis were reported from Truk District, an island group in the mid-Pacific. The causative agent was not identified in laboratory studies performed in that year. Retrospective serologic studies 15 years later with the complement fixation test and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay provided serologic evidence that this outbreak was caused by the human rotavirus that was first isolated in 1973.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010139:Pacific Islands; D012328:RNA Viruses / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012401:Rotavirus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012703:Serotyping; D014777:Virus Diseases