TY - JOUR AU - Parashar, Umesh AU - Gibson, Christopher AU - Bresee, Joseph AU - Glass, Roger T1 - Rotavirus and Severe Childhood Diarrhea T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 2 SP - 304 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Studies published between 1986 and 1999 indicated that rotavirus causes ≈22% (range 17%–28%) of childhood diarrhea hospitalizations. From 2000 to 2004, this proportion increased to 39% (range 29%–45%). Application of this proportion to the recent World Health Organization estimates of diarrhea-related childhood deaths gave an estimated 611,000 (range 454,000–705,000) rotavirus-related deaths. KW - Diarrhea KW - rotavirus KW - mortality KW - morbidity KW - hospitalizations KW - disease burden KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1202.050006 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/2/05-0006_article ER - End of Reference