title: A one year community-based study on the incidence of diarrhoea and rotavirus infection in urban and suburban Malaysian children.
abstract: A 1 year longitudinal study of 156 Malaysian children from urban and suburban areas in the Klang Valley revealed that the incidence rate of diarrhoea was 23.6 per 100 person-year with abnormal faeces reported on 0.26% of the total days of observation. Diarrhoea cases were detected in children from all socioeconomic classes. Rotavirus was isolated from 12% of the diarrheic children and asymptomatic rotavirus infection occurred in 3.2% of the children. All rotaviruses isolated were group A rotaviruses with long electrophoretypic pattern.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Yap
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Yasmin
authors.forename: Y H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Y E
authors.initials: YE
authors.lastname: Ooi
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jegathesan
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Khor
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Low
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008296:Malaysia / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D012400:Rotavirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013383:Suburban Population; D014505:Urban Population