Community-level burden of acute diarrhoeal illness in the first 2 years of life in Brisbane, Australia: A birth cohort study.
J Paediatr Child Health
; 57(1): 140-146, 2021 01.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32881146
ABSTRACT
AIM:
This study sought to describe the burden of acute diarrhoeal illness (ADI) in an Australian subtropical urban setting following rotavirus vaccine introduction and to investigate the associations between child/family characteristics and ADI.METHODS:
Parents of 154 children from the Observational Research in Childhood Infectious Diseases birth cohort provided daily symptom and health-care data until the age of 2 years.RESULTS:
The incidence rate of ADI was 1.07 per child-year (95% confidence interval 0.94-1.21). The median length of episode duration was 3 days (25th-75th percentiles 1-6). The incidence rate was significantly higher in the first month of life and between 6 and 17 months of age compared with 18-23 months, also for children with siblings and in formal childcare. Overall, 49% of ADI episodes led to health-care visits.CONCLUSIONS:
Despite a successful rotavirus vaccine programme, ADI still results in a substantial disease burden affecting young Australian children and their families.Palavras-chave
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Infecções por Rotavirus
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Rotavirus
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
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Infant
País/Região como assunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2021
Tipo de documento:
Article