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General Information - Rotavirus

Incubation period

Approximately 48 hours.

Common clinical features

Watery diarrhoea and vomiting. 

Fever and abdominal pain are also frequently reported

Reservoir

Gastrointestinal tract of man.

Transmission

Person to person by faecal oral route or by environmental contamination.