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      Rotavirus

      WikiJournal of Medicine
      Wikiversity Journal of Medicine

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          Abstract

          Rotavirus is the most common cause of diarrhoeal disease among infants and young children. It is a genus of double-stranded RNA viruses in the family Reoviridae. Nearly every child in the world is infected with rotavirus at least once by the age of five. Immunity develops with each infection, so subsequent infections are less severe; adults are rarely affected. There are eight species of this virus, referred to as A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H. Rotavirus A, the most common species, causes more than 90% of rotavirus infections in humans.

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          Journal
          WikiJournal of Medicine
          Wiki J Med
          Wikiversity Journal of Medicine
          20024436
          2017
          2017
          : 4
          : 1
          Article
          10.15347/wjm/2017.007
          080e0bbb-f6fc-4f04-b7d9-fcd88bd3f681
          © 2017

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