Title
Norovirus highly prevalent cause of endemic acute diarrhea in children in the peruvian amazon
Date Issued
01 January 2009
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Yori P.P.
Schwab K.
Nappier S.
Portocarrero D.V.
Black R.E.
Hall E.R.
Moe C.
Leon J.
Cama V.A.
Publisher(s)
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Wolters Kluwer Health
Abstract
To determine the burden of norovirus infections in children stools from a longitudinal community cohort were evaluated using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Norovirus was detected in 21.3% of diarrheal and 8.0% of nondiarrheal stools (P < 0.01). Norovirus diarrhea was highly associated with age and the odds ratio for norovirus diarrhea fell by 2.8% per month (OR = 0.97, 95% CI: 0.95-0.99). Norovirus seems to be an important etiology of community acquired diarrhea in this study population. Copyright © 2009 by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Start page
844
End page
847
Volume
28
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-70249084572
PubMed ID
Source
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
ISSN of the container
08913668
Sponsor(s)
This study was funded by National Institutes of Health grant K01-TW05717 (MK) , the Grand Challenges in Health Initiative http://www.grandchallengesgh.org/ , and the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System work unit number 847705 82000 25GB B0016 .
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