[Hospitalization for acute community-acquired rotavirus gastroenteritis: a 4-year survey].
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.
Moulin
F
F
Service d'accueil des urgences, hôpital Cochin-Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, 82, avenue Denfert-Rochereau, 75674 Paris, France.
Marc
E
E
Lorrot
M
M
Coquery
S
S
Sauvé-Martin
H
H
Ravilly
S
S
Lebon
P
P
Raymond
J
J
Brunet
F
F
Gendrel
D
D
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
Hospitalisations pour gastroentérites aiguës communautaires à rotavirus: une enquête de quatre ans.