Open AccessEpidemiologic and Clinical Characteristics of Rotavirus Disease During Five Years of Surveillance in Venezuela
Author(s) -
Beatriz Salinas,
Germán González,
Rosabel González,
Marisol Escalona,
Mercedes Ramírez de Materán,
Irene Pérez Schael
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/01.inf.0000142465.25992.c3
Subject(s) - rotavirus , medicine , diarrhea , pediatrics , disease , rotavirus vaccine , epidemiology , reoviridae , disease burden , environmental health
To effectively introduce a rotavirus vaccine in developing countries, it is necessary to estimate the burden of rotavirus disease. Therefore we examined the epidemiologic and clinical features of rotavirus diarrhea in children younger than 5 years of age in Carabobo State and extrapolated these results to the rest of Venezuela.