Rotavirus Infection in Infants as Protection against Subsequent Infections

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F. Raúl Velázquez · Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán

David O. Matson · Eastern Virginia Medical School

Juan J. Calva · Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán

M. Lourdes Guerrero · Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán

Ardythe L. Morrow · Eastern Virginia Medical School

Shelly Carter-Campbell · Harvard University

Roger I. Glass

Abstract

In infants, natural rotavirus infection confers protection against subsequent infection. This protection increases with each new infection and reduces the severity of the diarrhea.

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Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology Infant Nutrition and Health Respiratory viral infections research

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Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 335, Issue 14, pp. 1022-1028

DOI: 10.1056/nejm199610033351404

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Rotavirus Infection in Infants as Protection against Subsequent Infections

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