Surveillance of norovirus infection in a study of sporadic childhood gastroenteritis in South West England and South Wales, during one winter season (1999–2000)

3,172 stool samples from sporadic cases of gastroenteritis in children aged under 7 years, and 1,360 samples from 285 outbreaks of gastroenteritis, collected during the 1999-2000 winter season.

Diagnostic testing using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), electron microscopy (EM), and genotype II specific antigen capture enzyme immunoassay (EIA).

Prevalence of Norwalk-like viruses (NLV) and other enteric viruses as causal agents of gastroenteritis.