Burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis in children <5 years of age in Greece: Hospital-based prospective surveillance (2008-2010)

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Konstantopoulos, Andreas ^a   Tragiannidis, Athanasios ^b   Fouzas, Sotirios ^c   Kavaliotis, Ioannis ^d   Tsiatsou, Olga ^d   Michailidou, Elisa ^d   Spanaki, Ariana ^e   Mantagos, Stefanos ^c   Kafetzis, Dimitris ^f   Papaevangelou, Vana ^f   Gopala, Kusuma ^g   Holl, Katsiaryna ^h  

^a IASO   (Greece)

^b AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d Infectious Diseases Hospital of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^e Venizelion General Hospital   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd   (India)

^h GSK   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROTAVIRUS VACCINE;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREATMENT DURATION; VACCINATION; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 84890450483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003570     Document Type: Article

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