Hospitalization for acute community-acquired rotavirus gastroenteritis : a 4-year survey

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the number of hospitalizations due to community-acquired rotavirus acute gastroenteritis in a general pediatric unit during a four-year survey.

RESULTS: From January 1997 to December 2000, 725 patients were admitted for acute gastro-enteritis to the general paediatric unit of a Parisian children hospital (nosocomial diarrhoea excluded) and 706 (97.5%) of these patients had had a stool microbiologic examination. Diarrhoea was caused by rotavirus in 359 patients (50.89%) and Salmonella sp in 61 (8.6%). Children and infants hospitalized for rotavirus acute gastroenteritis were younger (26% had three months or less, and 50.03% had six months or less) than in other European studies.

CONCLUSION: This study is the first in France reporting a systematic survey of hospitalized gastroenteritis during four years. More than half of hospitalized community-acquired gastroenteritis were due to rotavirus in this Parisian area. The young age of patients should be investigated in other French areas, searching for risk factors and rotavirus strains.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2002

Erschienen:

2002

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Archives de pediatrie : organe officiel de la Societe francaise de pediatrie - 9(2002), 3 vom: 01. März, Seite 255-61

Sprache:

Französisch

Weiterer Titel:

Hospitalisations pour gastroentérites aiguës communautaires à rotavirus: une enquête de quatre ans

Beteiligte Personen:

Moulin, F [VerfasserIn]
Marc, E [VerfasserIn]
Lorrot, M [VerfasserIn]
Coquery, S [VerfasserIn]
Sauvé-Martin, H [VerfasserIn]
Ravilly, S [VerfasserIn]
Lebon, P [VerfasserIn]
Raymond, J [VerfasserIn]
Brunet, F [VerfasserIn]
Gendrel, D [VerfasserIn]

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English Abstract
Journal Article

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Date Completed 30.10.2002

Date Revised 01.09.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM118196561