Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have improved our understanding of how rotavirus, the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis in children, makes people sick ...

Rotavirus vaccines do not cause significant outbreaks of the disease in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), according to a new national study. The research will be presented at the Pediatric ...

Rotavirus causes gastroenteritis, a condition that includes diarrhea, deficient nutrient absorption and weight loss. Severe cases result in approximately 128,000 deaths annually in infants and ...

Philadelphia, December 9, 2024 – Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that transmission of rotavirus vaccine strains in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is rare and ...

In the post-vaccine era, rotavirus has become just another cause of acute gastroenteritis in most cases. But is there anything new in diagnosis and treatment? To Test or Not to Test? Commercially ...

November 3, 2011 (Boston, Massachusetts) — The prevalence of rotavirus (RV) in adults dropped by half after widespread pediatric vaccination against the virus, Evan Anderson, MD, assistant professor ...

MILAN, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Italian medical diagnostics group Diasorin said on Tuesday it had launched a test to detect Rotavirus in stool samples in Europe, a market estimated to be worth more than 10 ...

Rotavirus may not be on the hot list of viruses dominating headlines, but globally, it still tops the charts as the leading cause of severe, dehydrating diarrhea in children younger than 5 years, ...

The PRoRota-project will use probiotics, improved education in hygiene and advanced mathematical models to prevent children ...

Of all the diseases that the U.S. government announced today that it will no longer recommend vaccines against, rotavirus is by no means the deadliest. Not all children develop substantial symptoms; ...