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This study shows that the children with rotavirus gastroenteritis, rather than bacterial gastroenteritis, had more severe cases of the disease. This implies the need for rotavirus vaccinations. Supplemental paper for Rotavirus presentation.

The NSP4 protein is a multifunctional protein that plays a role in the morphogenesis and pathogenesis of the rotavirus, but studies continue to show the relationship between gastroenteritis severity and amino acid variations in the genome of NSP4 of the human rotavirus remains uncertain. Focus paper for presentation.

Mexico and Brazil both reported a significant decline in mortality and hospitalizations in kids under the age of 5 caused by gastroenteritis in post-vaccine years.

If you get the "stomach flu", you don't actually have the flu! :-)