[Clinico-laboratory analysis of the diarrhea syndrome in young children excreting rotaviruses with feces].

A total of 404 children admitted to the infectious hospital of the non-intestinal type were examined with the aid of counter immunoelectroosmophoresis. Rotavirus antigen was detected in feces in 46.8% of 126 children admitted with a diagnosis of diarrhea, in 10.8% of 278 without diarrhea, and also in 32.9% of 149 children with diarrhea that occurred at the hospital. The clinical course of acute rotavirus gastroenteritis appeared to be materially influenced by acute respiratory viral infection, particularly influenza, and by certain types of opportunistic bacteria contained in high concentrations by the intestine.