Primary care-based surveillance to estimate the burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis among children aged less than 5 years in six European counties

Abstract

This observational, prospective study was undertaken to estimate the burden of rotavirus (RV) gastroenteritis (GE) leading to general practitioner (GP)/family paediatrician (FP) visits among children aged {5 years in Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK. Children aged {5 years presenting with acute GE provided stool samples for rapid RV testing.

Keywords

• rotavirus
• gastroenteritis
• children
• epidemiology
• surveillance
• vaccination