Professor Tales said of the project: We expect the outcome of this research study to increase our understanding of vascularrelated mild cognitive impairment and vascular dementia and to have a direct, positive influence on the development of reallife and clinically-relevant tests of brain function, such as those used for early diagnosis and for ...
After several infections with different strains of the virus, children acquire immunity to rotavirus. Babies and toddlers between 6-24 months of age are at greatest risk for developing severe disease from rotavirus infection. Adults sometimes become infected, but the resulting illness is usually mild.
Rotavirus is the most common cause of diarrhoeal disease among infants and young children. It is a genus of double-stranded RNA viruses in the family Reoviridae. Nearly every child in the world is infected with rotavirus at least once by the age of five. Immunity develops with each infection, so subsequent infections are less severe; adults are rarely affected.