Article
Anticipating rotavirus vaccines: epidemiology and surveillance of rotavirus in South Africa.
Vaccine - 17 Jan 2003
Steele A D, Peenze I, de Beer M C, Pager C T, Yeats J, Potgieter N, Ramsaroop U, Page N A, Mitchell J O, Geyer A, Bos P, Alexander J J
Abstract excerpt
Rotavirus infection is associated with acute infantile gastroenteritis in infants and young children globally. In South Africa, rotavirus infection has been shown to be associated with approximately one-quarter of all diarrhoeal admissions to hospital. Rotavirus infection predominantly occurs in infants less than 12 months of age (75%) and has a peak of shedding during the cooler, drier months of the year. A...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.