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BMC Pediatrics BioMed Central Research article Open Access The impact of rotavirus gastroenteritis on the family 1 1 2 T Christopher Mast* , Carla DeMuro-Mercon , Claudia M Kelly , 3 3 Leigh Ellen Floyd and Emmanuel B Walter Address: 1Merck Research Laboratories, North Wales, PA, USA, 2Merck Vaccine and Infectious Diseases, North Wales, PA, USA and 3Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA Email: T Christopher Mast* - christopher_mast@; Carla DeMuro-Mercon - demuromercon@; Claudia M Kelly - claudia_kelly@; Leigh Ellen Floyd - leighellen2@; Emmanuel B Walter - walte002@ * Corresponding author Published: 6 February 2009 Received: 5 September 2008 Accepted: 6 February 2009 BMC Pediatrics 2009, 9:11 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-9-11 This article is available from: /1471-2431/9/11 © 2009 Mast et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhea in young children and causes substantial morbidity and mortality. Although the clinical aspects have been well described, little information is availabl