CALICIVIRUS GASTROENTERITIS IN NORTH WEST LONDON

During a thirty-month study of gastroenteritis in North West London, 592 cases were found to be associated with excretion of viruses. 39 (6·6%) of these patients, most of whom were admitted to hospital because of gastroenteritis, were shedding caliciviruses. The cases occurred throughout the year wi...

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Autores principales: Cubitt, W.D., Mcswiggan, D.A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 1981
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Public Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7135589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6117738
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(81)91167-3
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description During a thirty-month study of gastroenteritis in North West London, 592 cases were found to be associated with excretion of viruses. 39 (6·6%) of these patients, most of whom were admitted to hospital because of gastroenteritis, were shedding caliciviruses. The cases occurred throughout the year with a peak incidence in the winter. The 39 patients ranged in age from 6 weeks to 13 years, the peak incidence beig among infants aged 1-6 months. The clinical features of calcivirus infection are not distinguishable from those of rotavirus infection.
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spelling pubmed-71355892020-04-08 CALICIVIRUS GASTROENTERITIS IN NORTH WEST LONDON Cubitt, W.D. Mcswiggan, D.A. Lancet Public Health During a thirty-month study of gastroenteritis in North West London, 592 cases were found to be associated with excretion of viruses. 39 (6·6%) of these patients, most of whom were admitted to hospital because of gastroenteritis, were shedding caliciviruses. The cases occurred throughout the year with a peak incidence in the winter. The 39 patients ranged in age from 6 weeks to 13 years, the peak incidence beig among infants aged 1-6 months. The clinical features of calcivirus infection are not distinguishable from those of rotavirus infection. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 1981-10-31 2003-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7135589/ /pubmed/6117738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(81)91167-3 Text en Copyright © 1981 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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