A one year community-based study on the incidence of diarrhoea and rotavirus infection in urban and suburban Malaysian children.
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.
Yap
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KL
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
Yasmin
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AM
Wong
Y H
YH
Ooi
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YE
Tan
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SC
Jegathesan
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Khor
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Low
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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