Abstract
Viral RNA electrophoresis technique was used to detect rotavirus in 226 children under 2 years of age with acute diarrhea, admitted to the Roberto del Río Hospital in Santiago, Chile, during the period of June 1979 through May 1980. A group of 50 children included in the aforementioned sample, admitted in winter, was compared with a control group of 25 infants without digestive pathology. In these groups, rotavirus was detected in 20 out of 50 children with diarrhea (40%) but not in the controls (0%). A positive diagnosis of rotavirus was found in 66 out of the total of 226 patients (29.2%); its monthly distribution ranged between a maximum of 83.3% (June) and a minimum of 11.1% (October).
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