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===Hosts=== | ===Hosts=== | ||
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===Transmission/Exposure Routes=== | ===Transmission/Exposure Routes=== | ||
| − | Fecal-oral and usually person-to-person but sometimes via contaminated water, food, or shellfish. Airborne respiratory transmission is possible | + | Fecal-oral and usually person-to-person but sometimes via contaminated water, food, or shellfish. Airborne respiratory transmission is possible.<ref name=Wikipedia>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotavirus</ref> |
===Incubation Times=== | ===Incubation Times=== | ||
| − | 1-3 days | + | 1-3 days<ref name=CDC>[http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/surv-manual/chpt13-rotavirus.pdf CDC]</ref> |
===Case Fatality Ratios=== | ===Case Fatality Ratios=== | ||
| − | Rotavirus was estimated to be the cause of 37 deaths annually when data were extrapolated to the US population ([http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/195/8/1117.full.pdf+html | + | Rotavirus was estimated to be the cause of 37 deaths annually when data were extrapolated to the US population <ref name=Fischer>Thea Kølsen Fischer, Ce´ cile Viboud, Umesh Parashar, Mark Malek, Claudia Steiner, Roger Glass,and Lone Simonsen. (2007) Hospitalizations and Deaths from Diarrhea and Rotavirus among Children <5 Years of Age in the United States, 1993–2003. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 195:1117–25 [http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/195/8/1117.full.pdf+html Full Text]</ref> |
===Burden of Disease=== | ===Burden of Disease=== | ||
| − | Rotavirus was estimated to be the cause of ~60,000 hospitalizations annually when data were extrapolated to the US population | + | Rotavirus was estimated to be the cause of ~60,000 hospitalizations annually when data were extrapolated to the US population.<ref name=Fischer></ref> |
====Duration of Infectiousness and disease==== | ====Duration of Infectiousness and disease==== | ||
====Symptomology==== | ====Symptomology==== | ||
| − | Symptoms of infected individuals include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Loss of appetite and dehydration are also common, and especially harmful to infants and young children. <ref> | + | Symptoms of infected individuals include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Loss of appetite and dehydration are also common, and especially harmful to infants and young children.<ref name=CDC></ref> |
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Revision as of 20:52, 10 July 2012
Contents
Rotavirus
Hosts
Animals and humans
Transmission/Exposure Routes
Fecal-oral and usually person-to-person but sometimes via contaminated water, food, or shellfish. Airborne respiratory transmission is possible.[1]
Incubation Times
1-3 days[2]
Case Fatality Ratios
Rotavirus was estimated to be the cause of 37 deaths annually when data were extrapolated to the US population [3]
Burden of Disease
Rotavirus was estimated to be the cause of ~60,000 hospitalizations annually when data were extrapolated to the US population.[3]
Duration of Infectiousness and disease
Symptomology
Symptoms of infected individuals include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Loss of appetite and dehydration are also common, and especially harmful to infants and young children.[2]
Latency
Asymptomatic Rates
Excretion Rates (see Exposure)
Immunity
Microbiology
A genus of double-stranded RNA virus in the family Reoviridae
Environmental Resistance
Resistant to disinfection.
Recommended Dose Response Model
Dose response models for Rotavirus
Beta-Poisson, α is 2.53E-01, N50 is 6.17
References
http://www.cdc.gov/rotavirus/index.html
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotavirus
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 CDC
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Thea Kølsen Fischer, Ce´ cile Viboud, Umesh Parashar, Mark Malek, Claudia Steiner, Roger Glass,and Lone Simonsen. (2007) Hospitalizations and Deaths from Diarrhea and Rotavirus among Children <5 Years of Age in the United States, 1993–2003. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 195:1117–25 Full Text
