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- Title
Epidemiology of Rotavirus in the Iranian Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
- Authors
Seyed Hamid Reza Monavari; Hadifar, Shima; Mostafaei, Shayan; Miri, Ali; Keshavarz, Mohsen; Babaei, Farhad; Moghoofei, Mohsen
- Abstract
Rotavirus is associated with increased risk for severe diarrhea in infants and young children worldwide. This systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to determine the prevalence rate of rotavirus from different parts of Iran and provide an overall relative frequency (RF) for Iran. We performed a systematic literature review from several databases including PubMed, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, OVID, MAG IRAN, IranMedex, and Iranian Scientific Information Database. We searched the following keywords: "rotavirus," "rotavirus infection," "acute gastroenteritis," "diarrhea," "children," "infant," and "Iran." The purpose of this study was to report the prevalence of rotavirus with the application of meta-analysis. We selected 43 researches out of 1147 for our study. From all the samples, the pooled estimate of prevalence (95% confidence interval) =39.9% (0.396%-0.409%) were rotavirus positive. It should be noted that rotavirus infection's RF varied from 6.4% to 79.3% in Birjand and Tehran Provinces, respectively. Thereupon, it is divergent in different studies. According to our study result, rotavirus RF has a wide range in Iran and is associated with diarrhea in children. Thus, further researches should be taken to minimize the emergence and transmission of rotavirus.
- Subjects
IRAN; ROTAVIRUSES; DIARRHEA; JUVENILE diseases; ROTAVIRUS diseases; PUBLIC health
- Publication
Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2017, Vol 9, Issue 2, p66
- ISSN
0974-777X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/0974-777X.205173