Hospitalized children with community-acquired rotavirus infections experience substantial morbidity, including high rates of significant dehydration, clinical sepsis, and seizures.
Substantial morbidity in hospitalized children with rotavirus; leaves open questions on prevention strategies and outcomes.
We describe community-acquired rotavirus illness in 1359 children hospitalized at 12 centers in Canada between January 2005 and December 2007. The median age was 1.5 years. Almost half (48.6%) had significant dehydration, almost one-fifth (19%) had clinical sepsis and 7% had seizures at presentation. The median hospital stay was 3.4 days. Severe clinical presentations are less commonly described in surveillance programs.
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