Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Rotavirus disease in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa: a review of longitudinal community and hospital studies.

The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Sept 2010

Fischer Thea Kølsen, Aaby Peter, Mølbak Kåre, Rodrigues Amabélia

Abstract excerpt

Rotavirus is one of the most common causes of childhood diarrheal disease and deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. This article reviews community- and hospital-based surveillance of rotavirus disease in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. Here, rotavirus infections exhibit a seasonal pattern, with annual epidemics occurring during the relatively dry and cooler months, from January to April, and few cases registered from...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Child, Preschool
Share to Genotype
Share to Hospitals

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Infant

Share to Infant, Newborn

Share to Rotavirus

Share to Rotavirus Infections

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 20684710
DOI: 10.1086/653568

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-07.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Rotavirus disease in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa: a review of longitudinal community and hospital studies.PMID 20684710Read ↗

The epidemiology of human rotavirus associated with diarrhoea in Kenyan children: a review.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Burden and genotyping of rotavirus disease in the United Arab Emirates: a multicenter hospital-based surveillance.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Update on the epidemiology of rotavirus in the Middle East and North Africa.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Enteropathogenic viruses associated with acute gastroenteritis among African children under 5 years of age: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Prevalence, Pattern and Genetic Diversity of Rotaviruses among Children under 5 Years of Age with Acute Gastroenteritis in South Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Molecular Epidemiology of Rotavirus in Children under Five in Africa (2006-2016): A Systematic Review.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Anticipating rotavirus vaccines: epidemiology and surveillance of rotavirus in South Africa.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Enteric viruses isolates and rotavirus genotypes during the seasonal surge of acute watery childhood diarrhoea in South-Eastern NigeriaSemantic proximity Read ↗

Hospital-based Surveillance for Pediatric Norovirus Gastroenteritis in Bangladesh, 2012-2016.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Hospital-based study in children with rotavirus gastroenteritis and other enteropathogens.Semantic proximity Read ↗

A multicenter prospective hospital-based surveillance to estimate the burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis in children less than five years of age in India.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Rotavirus infection among hospitalized children under five years of age with acute watery diarrhea in Sri Lanka.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.