“…Human rotavirus is an important cause of gastroenteritis in infants and young children (12,14,21). Since human rotavirus does not grow efficiently in tissue culture systems (24), other methods, such as immune electron microscopy (13), complement fixation (2), counterimmunoelectrophoresis (2,15), immunofluorescence (27), radioimmunoassay (11,16), and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (7,25,29) have been utilized to detect antigen in clinical specimens.…”