The impact of rotavirus disease in Venezuela.

J Infect Dis

Instituto de Biomedicina, Sección de Investigación sobre Enfermedades Entéricas de la Infancia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Ministerio de Sanidad y Asistencia Social, Caracas.

Published: September 1996

Information concerning the disease burden of rotavirus, particularly in developing countries, has important implications for the use and for monitoring the impact of rotavirus vaccines. Although rotavirus has been recognized as the most frequent cause of hospitalization in the world, national estimates and specific information about the incidence of hospitalization for rotavirus gastroenteritis are very limited. Consequently, estimates of the incidence of hospitalization among children during the first 2 years of life in Venezuela were determined by extrapolation of data from a community-based study carried out in Caracas.

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