[The status and outlook of the laboratory diagnosis of rotavirus infection]

Rotavirus infection is not only the most distributed disease of children but a widely spread cause of their death. Nowadays considerable methodical potential which permits effectively detecting the whole virions, group A, antigens of human rotaviruses, virus-specific RNA in the clinical material is accumulated. There is a tendency to an increase of sensitivity and expressivity of the methods based on the use of immunological principles for detection and calculation of the antigen-antibody complex. Molecular-biological methods of the study are developed, which is important for the theory and practice of this infection control.