Rotavirus as an important cause of diarrhoea in a hospital for children in Dammam, Saudi Arabia
| Autor: | A. R. M. A. Alim, A. Al-Sadiq, A. S. M. M. Rahman, M. I. Huq, A. Al-Shahri |
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| Rok vydání: | 1987 |
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Diarrhea
Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty 030231 tropical medicine Saudi Arabia medicine.disease_cause Rotavirus Infections 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 030225 pediatrics Rotavirus Watery diarrhoea Medicine Humans Acute diarrhoea Dysentery Bacillary business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Infant Newborn Infant Moderate dehydration Hospitals Pediatric Gastroenteritis Rotavirus infection Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Cohort Diarrhea Infantile Vomiting medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Annals of tropical paediatrics. 7(3) |
| ISSN: | 0272-4936 |
| Popis: | A major cause of morbidity and mortality among children in developing countries is acute diarrhoea and rotavirus, a reovirus-like agent, is found to be a leading causative agent. We report here the incidence of rotavirus infection among infants and young children with gastro-enteritis treated at the Children's Hospital in Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. One hundred and fifty children, aged between 1 and 60 months, suffering from diarrhoeal illness, were selected as the study cohort; another 150 hospitalized children of the same age group, but not suffering from diarrhoea, served as controls. Sixty-two per cent of the study children complained of watery diarrhoea and 39% of vomiting; all had mild to moderate dehydration. Seventy-two per cent had fever and 30% associated respiratory illness. Worst affected were those 7-12 months old, among whom rotavirus was detected by ELISA techniques in 39.6%, compared with 7.5% of the control children of comparable age group. We could not detect any rotavirus from control children aged over 36 months, whereas approximately 15% of the study children in this age group yielded rotavirus from the stool. The second most common pathogen isolated was Shigella ssp. It was isolated from 18.7% of children under study as against 3% of the controls. |
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