Document Type

Editorial

Publication Date

2007

DOI

10.1086/516841

Publication Title

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volume

195

Pages

S1-S3

Abstract

Rotaviruses were discovered in the 1960s in animals and in the 1970s in humans; the latter discovery was made by an intrepid group who performed duodenal biopsies on children with acute gastroenteritis (AGE) [1]. By the late 1970s, data already clearly indicated that rotavirus was the cause of the annual winter peak of AGE affecting young children, as well as a frequent cause of severe gastroenteritis in various animal species (e.g., [2–5]). Use of the retrospectroscope clarified or left as tantalizing the suggestion that rotaviruses were the cause of the annual “winter vomiting syndrome” first described in children in 1910 in Japan [6] and in 1929 in the United States [7]. The recognition of that winter peak was a result of improved water and sewage handling that markedly reduced exposure to bacterial and parasitic pathogens but not to the common viral pathogens.

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Original Publication Citation

Matson, D. O. (2007). On a multinational assessment of rotavirus disease in Europe. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 195, S1-S3. doi:10.1086/516841

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