Human Reovirus-like Agent Infection
Occurrence in Adult Contacts of Pediatric Patients With Gastroenteritis
- Hyun W. Kim, MD;
- Carl D. Brandt, PhD;
- Albert Z. Kapikian, MD;
- Richard G. Wyatt, MD;
- Julita O. Arrobio, MD;
- William J. Rodriguez, MD;
- Robert M. Chanock, MD;
- Robert H. Parrott, MD
Abstract
Sixty-four adult family contacts of 61 young patients with gastroenteritis were included in a study for evidence of concurrent infection with the human reovirus-like agent (HRVLA) of infantile diarrhea. Evidence of infection was detected in 26 (41%) of the adult contacts. The HRVLA infection occurred significantly more often among adult contacts of pediatric patients infected with HRVLA (55%) than among contacts of young patients not infected with the agent (17%). Mild cases of gastroenteritis developed in only three of the contacts infected with HRVLA.
(JAMA 238:404-407, 1977)
Footnotes
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Reprint requests to Virology Section, Research Foundation of Children's Hospital National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Ave, Washington, DC 20010 (Dr Kim).
