title: [Hospitalization for acute community-acquired rotavirus gastroenteritis: a 4-year survey].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the number of hospitalizations due to community-acquired rotavirus acute gastroenteritis in a general pediatric unit during a four-year survey.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From January 1997 to December 2000, 725 patients were admitted for acute gastro-enteritis to the general paediatric unit of a Parisian children hospital (nosocomial diarrhoea excluded) and 706 (97.5%) of these patients had had a stool microbiologic examination. Diarrhoea was caused by rotavirus in 359 patients (50.89%) and Salmonella sp in 61 (8.6%). Children and infants hospitalized for rotavirus acute gastroenteritis were younger (26% had three months or less, and 50.03% had six months or less) than in other European studies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study is the first in France reporting a systematic survey of hospitalized gastroenteritis during four years. More than half of hospitalized community-acquired gastroenteritis were due to rotavirus in this Parisian area. The young age of patients should be investigated in other French areas, searching for risk factors and rotavirus strains.
authors.affiliation: Service d'accueil des urgences, hôpital Cochin-Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, 82, avenue Denfert-Rochereau, 75674 Paris, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Moulin
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marc
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lorrot
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Coquery
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sauvé-Martin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ravilly
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lebon
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Raymond
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Brunet
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gendrel
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000821:virology*; D006306:Health Surveys; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012400:Rotavirus Infections; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
vernacular_title: Hospitalisations pour gastroentérites aiguës communautaires à rotavirus: une enquête de quatre ans.