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© 1981 Oxford University Press

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ROTAVIRUS INFECTION IN ELDERLY PATIENTS

IRENE WANDLESS, Honorary Senior Registrar, H. K. NARANG, Senior Microbiologist and J. GRIMLEY EVANS, Professor

Department of Medicine (Geriatrics), Newcastle General Hospital Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE
Public Health Laboratory, Newcastle General Hospital Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE
Department of Medicine (Geriatrics), Newcastle General Hospital Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE

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.


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