Rotavirus morbidity and mortality in children in Brazil Morbilidad y mortalidad por rotavirus en niños en Brasil

• Main Authors: Ana Marli Christovam Sartori, Joice Valentim, Patrícia Coelho de Soárez, Hillegonda Maria Dutilh Novaes
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2008
• Subjects: Infecciones por rotavirus; morbilidad; mortalidad; Brasil; Rotavirus; mortality; morbidity; Brazil; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Aguda
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/1b7e9ba6dad84b90aa3b087943d2332a

OBJECTIVE: To study the epidemiology of rotavirus and estimate rotavirus-associated morbidity and mortality in children < 5 years of age in Brazil in 2004 before introducing the rotavirus vaccine in Brazil's National Immunization Program (Programa Nacional de Imunizações, PNI). METHODS: To e...