Rotavirus (Rotavirus) is a double-stranded ribonucleic acid virus belonging to the family Reoviridae. Rotavirus is most active in winter, is the culprit in causing diarrhea in infants and young children, and is a routine stool test in the laboratory department, with almost every child around the age of five contracting at least one rotavirus infection. With the increase in the number of infections, the body's immunity to rotavirus will gradually increase, and the impact of the virus on the human body will gradually weaken, and adults will rarely be affected.
Symptoms of rotavirus
The transmission route of rotavirus is mainly transmitted through fecal mouth, and after entering the human body, it will actively "attack" the cells of the intestinal mucosa, producing enterotoxin, causing severe diarrhea. The main symptoms in infants and young children are fever, vomiting, abdominal pain, and watery diarrhea. Generally, diarrhea is yellow-green egg flower soup or rice soup, which lasts for 3 to 7 days, and in severe cases, it will cause dehydration, electrolyte imbalance in the body and endanger life.
Therefore, parents should try to give their babies oral rotavirus vaccine in time, and when symptoms such as fever, vomiting and diarrhea appear, they must attach great importance to seeking medical treatment in time.
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Inspection center
Our laboratory center is one of the first medical laboratories in the province to pass the IS0-15189 accreditation, with specialized discipline grouping and highly educated personnel echelon, and equipped with advanced automation instruments such as Hisen Meikang XN-2000 automatic blood analyzer, Hitachi 7600 automatic biochemical analyzer, Dr. Tai BA400 urine biochemical analyzer, Roche E601 electrochemiluminescence analyzer, BACTEC9120 blood culture instrument, Advanced automation instruments and equipment such as roche Z480 fluorescence quantitative thermal cycler. The inspection center follows the standardized quality and biosafety management in its daily work, and escorts the clinical diagnosis with high-quality testing services. The testing center has 5 professional laboratories: biochemical laboratory, immunization laboratory, microbial self-immunity laboratory, clinical examination laboratory, and PCR laboratory. It can provide objective and accurate data for the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of clinical diseases, treatment and efficacy observation, census and prognosis judgment, and win valuable time for the treatment of life.