Group C rotavirus in a pediatric kidney transplant patient with diarrhea.

1 d rgan, stem-cell, small-intestinal, and bone-marrow translants have all documented diarrhea to be one of the major auses of post-operative morbidity and has led to longer hosital stays, increased diagnostic and treatment costs, and ven death (Cox et al., 1994; Kanfer et al., 1994a, 1994b; iakopoulou et al., 2005a, 2005b; Socie et al., 1999; Yolken t al., 1982; Ziring et al., 2005). Establishing the cause of gastroenteritis in transplant atients can be critical to considering the most appropriate reatment. Both rejection and side-effects of immunosupressive therapy have been associated with diarrhea, leading o changes in the choice and dosages of these drugs. Howver, a number of viral agents, including group A rotaviruses, oroviruses, adenoviruses, and astroviruses, have each been dentified as causes of severe and prolonged diarrhea in translant patients and their identification can lead to supportive 2. Case