Hospitalizations for nosocomial rotavirus gastroenteritis in a tertiary pediatric center: a 4-year prospective study.

Background: Although rotavirus is the most common cause of gastroenteritis worldwide, data regarding nosocomial rotavirus gastroenteritis (NRVGE) are limited. Our objectives were to study the rates, seasonality, epidemiology, and clinical features of NRVGE.

Methods: This was a 4-year prospective study.

Selective low-dose valganciclovir for prevention of cytomegalovirus disease following kidney transplantation.

Objectives: To assess the safety of a cytomegalovirus prophylaxis regimen using selective low-dose valganciclovir.

Methods: Retrospective before-after comparison, including consecutive kidney transplant recipients between 2002 and 2004. Excluded were deaths or graft loss within one month after transplantation.

Adenovirus infection in hospitalized immunocompetent children.

This study investigated the clinical features of immunocompetent children with adenovirus infection requiring hospitalization. The files of 78 children (mean age 17 +/- 10 months) with community-acquired adenovirus infection admitted over a 2-year period were reviewed. The children were referred after 5.

Herpes simplex virus type 1 is the prevailing cause of genital herpes in the Tel Aviv area, Israel.

Background And Goal: The changing epidemiology of genital herpes with the increasing importance of herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 prompted a study on the relative prevalence of HSV-1 and HSV-2 among cases of genital herpes in the Tel Aviv area, Israel.

Study Design: A retrospective laboratory-based study of positive genital and nongenital herpes cultures performed at the Beilinson Medical Center between 1993 and 2002. Data regarding the number of isolates of each type and the age and sex of patients with genital lesions were retrieved from the database.