Ahmed Shamel ¹, Basim Mohammed Khashman ²✉, Shahad Khudhair Khalaf ¹
Areej Atiyah Hussein ¹
¹College of Medicine, University of Diyala, Iraq
²National Cancer Research Center, University of Baghdad, Iraq
Received: Jan 1, 2023/ Accepted: Jan 29, 2023/ Published: Jan 31, 2023
(✉) Corresponding Author: basim@bccru.uobaghdad.edu.iq
Abstract
The rotavirus remains the most common cause of diarrhea in children. The World Health Organization has indicated that more than half a million children under the age of five years died because of contracting rotavirus, and most of them are from poor countries. Adults appear to be less susceptible to rotavirus infections, which is likely due to partial immunity resulting from previous infections. Rotavirus infection often begins within two days of virus introduction. Fever and vomiting are the first signs, followed by three to seven days of watery diarrhea. The infection might result in stomach pain, as well as minor or no signs and symptoms. The diagnosis is done by using immunological techniques such as latex agglutination test, immune chromatography (Rapid test), and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay or molecular methods such as polymerase chain reaction and real-time polymerase chain reaction and the rates vary between 18-57% in different Iraqi cities depend on sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. Rotavirus infection contentious a major public health problem in the Iraqi population and the rates diverge from one area to another according to many factors.
Keywords: Rotavirus, Diarrhea, Gastroenteritis, Agglutination test, Immune chromatography
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Shamel, A., Khashman, B. M., Khalaf, S. K. and Hussein, A. A. (2023). Rotavirus infection in iraqi children: a review. Microbial Science Archives, Vol. 3 (1), 12-17. https://doi.org/10.47587/MSA.2023.3103
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