Cent Eur J Public Health 2008, 16(1):12-16 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a3453

Nosocomial Rotaviral Gastroenteritis in Paediatric Departments

Mária Štefkovičová1, Pavol Šimurka2, Lenka Juračková2, Henrieta Hudečková3, Rastislav Maďar3
1 Regional Office of Public Health in Trenčín, Slovak Republic
2 Teaching Hospital in Trenčín, Slovak Republic
3 Institute of Public Health, JLF UK Martin, Slovak Republic

The authors present a retrospective analysis of community-acquired and hospital-acquired rotaviral gastroenteritis (RVGE) cases in a 5 years period 2001-2005 and prospective analysis in 2006 in the referral area in a population of 7,000 children under 5 years of age.
Out of 228 patients with RVGE, nosocomial RVGE accounted for 27.75% of the cases. Children with nosocomial RVGE were in average 9.8 months younger compared to patients with community-acquired RVGE. Nosocomial cases were also characterised by the need for longer stay in intensive care, overall longer hospital stay, longer duration of the illness and by lower age of the patients.
The wider implementation of vaccination in the youngest members of the population would be likely to have a significant influence on the occurrence of not only community-acquired but also hospital-acquired RVGE.

Keywords: rotaviral gastroenteritis, hospital-acquired, community-acquired

Received: September 29, 2007; Revised: November 20, 2007; Accepted: November 20, 2007; Published: March 1, 2008  Show citation

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Štefkovičová M, Šimurka P, Juračková L, Hudečková H, Maďar R. Nosocomial Rotaviral Gastroenteritis in Paediatric Departments. Cent Eur J Public Health. 2008;16(1):12-16. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a3453. PubMed PMID: 18459473.
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