Identification of groups of people vulnerable to gastroenteritis is useful to guide resource allocation.
The duration of gastroenteritis of patients who consulted their general practitioner was generally longer than of patients who did not.
A study in the community is the best method to gain knowledge of gastroenteritis as a whole, but is very costly and timeconsuming.
The elderly have a lower risk of contracting gastroenteritis, possibly due to conservative and safe food habits.
The persons of the third camp were informed about the gastroenteritis illness in the two previous camps.
These studies also highlight the shortcomings of mutations which demonstrate attenuation in systemic infection but are not tested for their ability to induce gastroenteritis.
At least 76 of the hotel's guests and 40 hotel employees had acute gastroenteritis during this period.
Viral agents of gastroenteritis can be excreted in low numbers, and electron microscopy may not be a sufficiently sensitive detection technique.
