Gastroenteritis Due to Rotavirus in an Isolated Pacific Island Group: an Epidemic of 3,439 Cases

Overview

Journal J Infect Dis

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 1980 Jan 1

PMID 6245146

Citations 17

Authors

S O Foster

E L Palmer

G W Gary Jr

M L Martin

K L Herrmann

P Beasley

J Sampson

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Abstract

In the spring of 1964, 3,439 cases of acute gastroenteritis were reported from Truk District, an island group in the mid-Pacific. The causative agent was not identified in laboratory studies performed in that year. Retrospective serologic studies 15 years later with the complement fixation test and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay provided serologic evidence that this outbreak was caused by the human rotavirus that was first isolated in 1973.

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