Rotavirus gastroenteritis: epidemiological data from a regional hospital in Belgium
- 9 February 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Pediatrics
- Vol. 167 (1) , 71-73
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-007-0428-9
Abstract
The Belgian Institute of Public Health registered from 2000 to 2005 a yearly average of 6,790 hospital admissions for rotavirus gastroenteritis in children less than 5 years of age. Very efficacious rotavirus vaccines are available nowadays. The surveillance of hospitalisation due to rotavirus gastroenteritis is a good target for the follow-up of vaccine-related prevention. In a large regional Belgian hospital, rotavirus is associated with 12% to 21% of all hospitalisation days among children less than 2 years of age. The general implementation of rotavirus vaccination could dramatically reduce the hospitalisation of young children due to rotavirus gastroenteritis in developed countries.Keywords
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