Rotavirus Epidemic in Adults

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To the Editor: There is strong evidence that a reovirus-like agent,1 usually referred to as rotavirus,2 is a major cause of nonbacterial gastroenteritis in infants and children in many parts of the world.3 The role of rotavirus in gastroenteritis in adults, however, is still poorly understood. Middleton et al.4 demonstrated with a volunteer experiment that rotavirus is capable of infecting adults. Kapikian et al.5 studied parents of infected children and found, in 13 out of 40 cases, a fourfold or greater rise in rotavirus serum complement-fixation antibody titers. Only three parents, however, had clinical symptoms, and in only one . . .