Rotaviral enteritis is the main diarrheal disease in infants caused by rotavirus infection. Rotaviruses are members of the Reoviridae family and contain genomes consisting of eleven segments of double-stranded RNA. Rotavirus is transmitted primarily via the fecal-oral route.
Category
Infectious disease
Brite
Infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by dsRNA viruses
H00975 Rotaviral enteritis
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Gastroenteritis or colitis of infectious origin
Viral intestinal infections
1A22 Gastroenteritis due to Rotavirus
H00975 Rotaviral enteritis
Pathogen
Rotavirus A [GN:T40092] Human rotavirus B [GN:T40123] Rotavirus C [GN:T40094] NSP4 enterotoxin [VG:7011361]
Drug
Live attenuated human rota virus vaccine, oral [DR:D10193]
Rotavirus vaccine, live, oral, pentavalent [DR:D10211]
Other DBs
ICD-11:
1A22
ICD-10:
A08.0
MeSH:
D012400
Reference
PMID:2855916
Authors
Leung AK, Pai CH
Title
Rotavirus gastroenteritis.
Journal
J Diarrhoeal Dis Res 6:188-207 (1988)
Reference
PMID:22687427
Authors
Ogden KM, Johne R, Patton JT
Title
Rotavirus RNA polymerases resolve into two phylogenetically distinct classes that differ in their mechanism of template recognition.