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Incidence of hospitalizations due to rotavirus gastroenteritis in Denmark
Author(s) -
Fischer TK
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2001.tb01366.x
Subject(s) - medicine , rotavirus , danish , incidence (geometry) , pediatrics , epidemiology , rotavirus gastroenteritis , rotavirus infections , reoviridae , diarrhea , demography , philosophy , linguistics , physics , sociology , optics
To assess the incidence of rotavirus‐related diarrhoea among Danish children <5 y of age, laboratory‐based data obtained from inpatients in two major Danish counties were reviewed. In the period January 1995 to December 1999, samples from 1333 children <5 y of age hospitalized with diarrhoea in Copenhagen County and 813 samples from inpatients <5 y of age in Roskilde County were tested for rotavirus. Rotavirus infection was identified in 237 (18%) and 179 (22%) of the cases, respectively. As in other temperate countries a marked seasonality of rotavirus infections was observed, with a peak in winter and the early spring months of March and April. The hospitalization rate was 2.8 per 1000 in children <5 y and 5.4 in children <2 y of age. Conclusion : These findings suggest that rotavirus gastroenteritis remains a common disease in Danish hospitalized children and causes a substantial burden of disease.