id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-252763-gy8f1oyt Shetty, Mamatha Viral Diarrhoea in a Rural Coastal Region of Karnataka India 1995-10-17 .txt text/plain 1351 81 52 A total of 106 children below 5 years of age admitted to the Kasturba Medical College Hospital Manipal Karnataka (South India) were investigated over a period of 6 months to determine the aetiologkal role of viruses in acute diarrhoea. 1 " 3 In view of the recent recognition of some viral aetiological agents of acute infantile diarrhoea, we conducted the present study to identify viruses as the causative agents of infantile diarrhoea in Manipal, a place in Coastal Karanataka (South India). One-hundred-and-six children aged below 5 years, suffering from acute watery diarrhoea of less than 4 days' duration who attended the out patient clinic of paediatric dept of the Kasturba Medical College Hospital, Karanataka, South India were included in the study. Enteric adenoviruses are well established as respiratory viruses and are second to Rotavirus as the most common cause of pediatric viral gastroenteritis. ./cache/cord-252763-gy8f1oyt.txt ./txt/cord-252763-gy8f1oyt.txt