DOI: 10.36347/sajp.2019.v08i12.005

Pages: 544-546

Background: Acute diarrheal diseases are one of the top five causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, accounting for 0.52 million deaths annually in children. In India, approximately 2.5 million children were affected with diarrhoeal illness every year. Amongst these, viral diarrhoea’s form the most important cluster. Rotavirus is the most common identifiable viral cause of diarrhoea in children. Rotavirus infection ranges from asymptomatic infection to severe life threatening diarrhoea. The main cause of diarrhoea are poor personal and food hygiene and lack of clean drinking water. Materials and Methods: Stool specimens from 100 subjects have been collected for this study from a hospital in Chennai, who presented with diarrhoea and were tested for the causative agents responsible for the infection by various microbiological techniques.