1.
Eur J Pediatr
; 167(1): 71-3, 2008 Jan.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17294214
RESUMO
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.
Assuntos
Gastroenterite/epidemiologia , Hospitalização/estatística & dados numéricos , Vigilância da População/métodos , Infecções por Rotavirus/epidemiologia , Bélgica/epidemiologia , Pré-Escolar , Gastroenterite/prevenção & controle , Gastroenterite/virologia , Registros Hospitalares , Humanos , Lactente , Prevalência , Estudos Retrospectivos , Infecções por Rotavirus/prevenção & controle , Vacinas contra Rotavirus , Estações do Ano
2.
Eur J Pediatr
; 162(3): 212-3, 2003 Mar.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12659096