What Is a Rotavirus Infection?
9. Diagnosis
A doctor will need to ask about your symptoms, as well as your medical history. They may also want to perform a brief physical examination. This is often enough for a doctor to make a diagnosis, but some will want to perform further tests to confirm what is causing the symptoms.
Testing typically involves asking the patient to provide a stool sample. The samples can then be sent to a laboratory to look for signs of rotavirus and other pathogens, which help to rule out other possibilities also. If the rotavirus is found in the patient’s stools then the diagnosis can be confirmed.
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