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Published on: January 28, 2019
Rotavirus infection in neonates at a university hospital in Korea
Chang-Ryul Kim1, Jae Won Oh, Myung Kul Yum
1Department of Pediatrics, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. crkim@hanyang.ac.kr
Abstract:
To develop measures to prevent neonatal rotavirus infection, we carried out rotavirus surveillance testing on all the newborns who were admitted to a newborn nursery in Korea during 1 year. We investigated the characteristics of neonatal rotavirus infection and found that it occurred throughout the year with the G4P[6] strain exclusively. Most newborns were infected nosocomially and showed no symptoms. We concluded that rotavirus might be transmitted from asymptomatic infected newborns who were born outside the hospital. We recommend isolation and rotavirus surveillance testing for all transfer patients.
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