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Rotavirus gastroenteritis: epidemiological data from a regional hospital in Belgium

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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.

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Abbreviations

CDC:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

IPH:

Institute of Public Health

RVGE:

rotavirus gastroenteritis

WHO:

World Health Organization

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  1. Paediatric Department, Virga Jesse Hospital, Stadsomvaart 11, 3500, Hasselt, Belgium

    Marc Raes, Peter Aerssens, Philippe Alliet, Philippe Gillis & Marie-Paule Verjans

  2. Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Virga Jesse Hospital, Hasselt, Belgium

    Alex Mewis

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Raes, M., Aerssens, P., Alliet, P. et al. Rotavirus gastroenteritis: epidemiological data from a regional hospital in Belgium. Eur J Pediatr 167, 71–73 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-007-0428-9

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