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Article: Rotavirus Vaccine Limits Duration Of Sapporo-Like Virus Diarrhea.
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- TB & Outbreaks Week
- Article date:
- April 17, 2001
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2001 APR 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Rotavirus vaccine appears to shorten the duration of gastroenteritis caused by Sapporo-like viruses (SLVs), say researchers working in Finland.
SLV occurs worldwide and peaks from March to May, as does rotavirus, but knowledge of SLV is limited outside Japan, said X.L. Pang and colleagues.
They collected stool samples from 1,432 episodes of gastroenteritis during a trial of rotavirus vaccine and used reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay to identify which cases were caused by SLV. The assay used new primers specific for Sapporo virus ...