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February 21, 2007Journal of Medical MicrobiologyOpen Access

Adenoviruses associated with acute gastroenteritis in hospitalized and community children up to 5 years old in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, Brazil

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Population

Children up to 5 years old with acute gastroenteritis/diarrhoea, hospitalized in Rio de Janeiro or living in…

Design

Cross-sectional

Key result

The provided text is a tutorial for submitting a thesis to an institutional repository and contains no clinical data.

Authors

EFEdson Pereira FilhoNFNieli Rodrigues da Costa FariaAFAlexandre Madi Fialho

Discussion

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Overview

No clinical data provided; leaves open the endemic role of species F adenoviruses in Brazilian pediatric gastroenteritis.

Structured PICO

P
Population
Children up to 5 years old with acute gastroenteritis/diarrhoea, hospitalized in Rio de Janeiro or living in slums of Salvador, Brazil (n=3060 stool samples).
O
Outcome
Prevalence and species/type identification of human adenoviruses (HAdVs)

Human adenoviruses, particularly species F, are endemic etiological agents of acute gastroenteritis in young children in Brazil.

Limitations

  • limited sensitivity of EIARA as a screening method may have underestimated prevalence

Cite This Study

Filho et al. (2007) studied this question. The provided text is a tutorial for submitting a thesis to an institutional repository and contains no clinical data.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a779b50e29fd788c9f76d0fhttps://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.46685-0
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