Marie Riepenhoff-Talty

TL;DR: Data suggest a possible relationship between group C rotavirus and extrahepatic biliary atresia in the 10 patients in whom virus RNA was detected.

TL;DR: Although there was no obvious atresia as described in human infants, the obstruction in immunocompetent BALB/c infant mice infected with a human or animal strain of group A rotavirus was strikingly similar to those seen in the liver of the human infant with biliary atResia.

TL;DR: The relationship between feeding method and risk of rotavirus infection was studied by following a cohort of 197 infants from low income households through the winter diarrhea season of 1983-84, suggesting that factors associated with breast-feeding, although not affecting rotav virus infection rates, may moderate the clinical course of rotvirus gastroenteritis.

TL;DR: The epidemiology of rotavirus gastroenteritis was investigated for two consecutive seasons (1987-1988 and 1988-1989) in seven locales in the continental USA and the amplification typing technique proved to be of great value in typing the 17% of rotvirus-positive specimens untypable by the serologic technique.

TL;DR: The titers of IgG rotav virus antibody in convalescent specimens of serum were found to be statistically significantly lower in patients with severe or prolonged rotavirus infection than in specimens from subjects with mild or moderate disease.