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Infantile convulsions with mild gastroenteritis
1Department of Pediatrics, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, 173-8605, Tokyo, Japan. htabe@med.teikyo-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
The development of sensitive new molecular genetic techniques has led to the detection of rotavirus in cerebrospinal fluid, stools and throat swabs from patients with gastroenteritis with accompanying clinical symptoms similar to infantile benign convulsions. Small round structured virus (SRSV) has also been found in stools of patients with similar clinical symptoms by a new procedure. However, the mechanism by which these viral infections induce benign convulsions remains to be elucidated. The present paper reviews recent virological and clinical studies of seizures probably caused by gastroenteritis viruses including rotavirus, SRSV and other viruses.
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