ROTAVIRUS INFECTION IN ELDERLY PATIENTS
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Age and Ageing
- Vol. 10 (1) , 36-39
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/10.1.36
Abstract
In the course of an outbreak of non-bacterial diarrhoea in a group of elderly patients in a rehabilitation ward, rotavirus was detected by electron-microscopy in five of 11 stool specimens (45.5%) from symptomatic elderly patients. This suggests that although rotavirus is usually thought of as a cause of gastro-enteritis in children it should also be considered as a cause of non-bacterial diarrhoea in elderly patients and stool specimens examined for its presence. Rotavirus gastro-enteritis appears to be a highly contagious disease but appropriate measures can limit its spread.Keywords
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