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Burden of Severe Norovirus Disease in Taiwan, 2003–2013
Author(s) -
Rachel M. Burke,
Shu-Man Shih,
Catherine Yen,
YhuChering Huang,
Umesh D. Parashar,
Benjamin A. Lopman,
FangTzy Wu,
Chao A. Hsiung,
Aron J. Hall
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciy298
Subject(s) - norovirus , medicine , incidence (geometry) , population , acute gastroenteritis , disease , disease burden , demography , pediatrics , environmental health , outbreak , virology , physics , sociology , optics
Despite the increasingly recognized role of norovirus in global acute gastroenteritis (AGE), specific estimates of the associated disease burden remain sparse, primarily due to limited availability of sensitive norovirus diagnostics in the clinical setting. We sought to estimate the incidence of norovirus-associated hospitalizations by age group in Taiwan using a previously developed indirect regression method.

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