A novel aetiologic agent associated with acute gastroenteritis (AGE), referred to as Adelavirus, is disclosed. The invention particularly relates to an isolated single-stranded DNA virus referred to as Adelavirus, polynucleotide molecules encoding Adelavirus or portions thereof (eg the viral coat ...
Diagnostic stewardship consists of interventions to modify the ordering, processing, and reporting of diagnostic tests in order to provide theright testfor theright patient, prompting theright action. Diagnostic stewardship aims to affect patient outcomes and educate clinicians through real-time practice c...
To evaluate the diagnostic value of the Vesikari Scoring System (VSS) as an early predictor of pathogens in children with acute gastroenteritis (AG).In this retrospective study, the VSS score, absolute neutrophil count (ANC), and C-reactive protein (CRP) levels were analyzed in 107 hospitalized...
Evaluation of Rotavirus Test Kits for Possible Use with Environmental Samples Rotavirus is recognized as the major causative agent of viral gastroenteritis in young children. In the early 1970's, rotavirus particles infecting infants... DR Dahling,BA Wright,FP Williams 被引量: 0发表: 1991年 加载...
Although often considered a benign disease, acute gastroenteritis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, there are over 1.7 billion cases of diarrheal disease worldwide every year. Furthermor...
Viral infections commonly cause acute gastroenteritis with the highest burden concentrated in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Even though these pathogens mainly lead to short-lasting and self-limiting diarrhoeal diseases, they account for considerable morbidity and even mortality, particularly...
We evaluated the performance of oral swab specimen both health-care worker (HCW) collected and self-collected for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) detection with rapid antigen test (RAT) as compared to reverse transcriptase po
C. difficile toxin was detected in 9.5% of patients diagnosed with gastroenteritis at a major referral center in Saudi Arabia in 1994 (Akhter et al., 1994). A more recent study done in 2007–2008 estimated the annual incidence rate of CDI to be around 2.4 and 1.7 per 10,000 patient ...
8.Baek MS, Mok YM, Han WC, Kim YS. A patient with eosinophilic gastroenteritis presenting with acute pancreatitis and ascites.Gut Liver. 2014;8:224-227.[PubMed][DOI][Cited in This Article:1][Cited by in Crossref: 15][Cited by in F6Publishing: 18][Article Influence: 1.6][Reference Ci...
The study was aimed at comparing methods of direct detection from biopsy using the boiling method and one other method with two known gold standards (histology and CLO test) for the diagnosis of in Nigeria. A total of 168 biopsies (three from antrum and one from corpus each) were taken fro...