ArticleEpidemiology and infection2008
Climatic factors associated with hospitalizations for rotavirus diarrhoea in children under 5 years of age.
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67 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A systematic review and meta-analysis of ambient temperature and diarrhoeal diseases.International journal of epidemiology · 2016Pooled it
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- Seasonality of rotavirus disease in the tropics: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of epidemiology · 2009Pooled it
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- Time-series analysis of climatic drivers of pediatric rotavirus and adenovirus infections in post-pandemic China.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Associations between meteorological variation and hospitalisations for rotavirus infections in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Heliyon · 2024Article
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- Screening for viral pathogens in the gastrointestinal tract from cases of sudden unexpected death in infancy at the Tygerberg Medico-legal Mortuary.Virology journal · 2023Article
- A 7-Year Survey (2015-2021) in One Pediatric Hospital (Brasov, Romania) on Rotavirus Gastroenteritis Specified as Community- or Hospital-Acquired Infection in Young Children.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- Molecular Epidemiology and Surveillance of Human Adenovirus and Rotavirus A Associated Gastroenteritis in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
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Abstract
This study compares the seasonality of rotavirus diarrhoeal hospital admissions and its relationship to climatic factors across three Australian cities. Weekly admission of rotavirus diarrhoea (1993-2003) in children aged <5 years and weekly average temperature and relative humidity for each city were modelled using a log-linear model with a cubic trend and season. Interactions were included to test for differences in the effect of temperature and humidity between seasons and between cities. Admissions of rotavirus diarrhoea peaked in winter and spring and were lowest in summer. Higher temperature and humidity in the previous week were associated with a decrease in rotavirus diarrhoeal admissions in three cities. The effects of both temperature and humidity on rotavirus admissions in Brisbane differed across seasons. Strategies to combat outbreaks of rotavirus diarrhoea should take climatic factors and seasonal effects into consideration to plan for the excess seasonal hospital admissions.
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