Prospective longitudinal study of rotavirus infections in children from birth to two years of age in Central Africa

Annales De L'Institut Pasteur. Virology
M C Georges-CourbotA J Georges

Abstract

A cohort of 111 children born in Bangui (Central African Republic) was followed from birth to two years of age for rotavirus infections by biweekly stool investigations until six months of age, as well as at each diarrhoeic episode. Thirty-eight children (34.2%) exhibited at least one rotavirus infection by the age of 6 months. Thirty children (27%) presented with rotavirus-associated diarrhoea before 2 years of age. Until the children reached the age of 12 months, rotavirus was identified significantly more frequently in diarrhoeic stools than in non-diarrhoeic stools (p less than 0.001). A low diversity of characterized rotavirus strains was found; only two electrophoretypes were identified, and 91% of the strains belonged to subgroup II, serotype 1, with no special strain identified in newborns. A total of 38 children had a rotavirus infection before the age of six months, while 73 did not: only 2.6% of the first group had diarrhoea associated with rotavirus between 6 and 24 months, versus 20.5% in the second group (p less than 0.05). In two-thirds of the cases of infection, the presence of rotavirus in stools was detected only once; repetitive isolations were more frequent in diarrhoeic than in asymptomatic infections. The ...Continue Reading

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