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- Title
Community‐level burden of acute diarrhoeal illness in the first 2 years of life in Brisbane, Australia: A birth cohort study.
- Authors
Mihala, Gabor; Grimwood, Keith; Lambert, Stephen B; Ware, Robert S
- Abstract
Aim: This study sought to describe the burden of acute diarrhoeal illness (ADI) in an Australian subtropical urban setting following rotavirus vaccine introduction and to investigate the associations between child/family characteristics and ADI. Methods: Parents of 154 children from the Observational Research in Childhood Infectious Diseases birth cohort provided daily symptom and health‐care data until the age of 2 years. Results: The incidence rate of ADI was 1.07 per child‐year (95% confidence interval: 0.94–1.21). The median length of episode duration was 3 days (25th–75th percentiles: 1–6). The incidence rate was significantly higher in the first month of life and between 6 and 17 months of age compared with 18–23 months, also for children with siblings and in formal childcare. Overall, 49% of ADI episodes led to health‐care visits. Conclusions: Despite a successful rotavirus vaccine programme, ADI still results in a substantial disease burden affecting young Australian children and their families.
- Subjects
BRISBANE (Qld.); ACUTE diseases; JUVENILE diseases; ROTAVIRUS vaccines; COMMUNICABLE diseases; COHORT analysis
- Publication
Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health, 2021, Vol 57, Issue 1, p140
- ISSN
1034-4810
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jpc.15160