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Author(s) -
Swannell Cate
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja2.50228
Subject(s) - elite , citation , information retrieval , library science , computer science , political science , law , politics
In 1973 Professor Bishop, along with colleagues from the Royal Children’s Hospital and the University of Melbourne’s microbiology department, found a virus now known as rotavirus. They showed it was the cause of an acute gastroenteritis that hospitalised 10 000 Australian children every year and killed more than half a million children worldwide. As a result, vaccination against “gastro” has been part of the National Immunisation Program for all Australian infants since July 2007, resulting in a drop in hospital admissions of more than 70%.