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Diagnosis

The diagnosis can be made by rapid antigen detection of rotavirus in a stool sample. Strains may be further characterized by enzyme immunoassay or chain reactions in reverse transcriptase polymerase, but these tests are not done frequently.

Symptoms

Rotavirus disease is more common in infants and young children, but adults and older children can also become infected by rotavirus. Once a person has been exposed to the virus, symptoms take about 2 days to appear.

Symptoms include:

- Fever
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Abdominal pain

Vomiting and watery diarrhea can last from 3 to 8 days in a child infected with rotavirus. Other symptoms include loss of appetite and dehydration (loss of body fluids), which can be especially serious for infants and young children.

Both children vaccinated as those who have not been vaccinated can get sick from rotavirus more than once, since there are different types of rotavirus and because no vaccine or naturally acquired infection provides immunity (protection) total to future infections. Generally, the most severe symptoms occur the first time a person becomes infected by rotavirus.

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