Substantial morbidity for hospitalized children with community-acquired rotavirus infections: 2005-2007 IMPACT surveillance in Canadian hospitals

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2010 Sep;29(9):879-82. doi: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3181e20c94.

Abstract

We describe community-acquired rotavirus illness in 1359 children hospitalized at 12 centers in Canada between January 2005 and December 2007. The median age was 1.5 years. Almost half (48.6%) had significant dehydration, almost one-fifth (19%) had clinical sepsis and 7% had seizures at presentation. The median hospital stay was 3.4 days. Severe clinical presentations are less commonly described in surveillance programs.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Age Distribution
  • Canada / epidemiology
  • Child
  • Child, Hospitalized
  • Child, Preschool
  • Community-Acquired Infections / complications
  • Community-Acquired Infections / epidemiology*
  • Community-Acquired Infections / pathology
  • Hospitals
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Length of Stay / statistics & numerical data
  • Rotavirus / isolation & purification*
  • Rotavirus Infections / complications
  • Rotavirus Infections / epidemiology*
  • Rotavirus Infections / pathology
  • Seizures / epidemiology
  • Sepsis / epidemiology