Volume 25, Number 12—December 2019
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Multicountry Analysis of Spectrum of Clinical Manifestations of Children <5 Years of Age Hospitalized with Diarrhea
Table 2
Proportion of children <5 years of age hospitalized for diarrhea who also had acute gastroenteritis at sentinel sites, WHO-Coordinated Global Rotavirus Sentinel Surveillance Network, 2013–2015*
Country | Year of vaccine introduction | National rotavirus vaccine coverage, 2016, % (13) | Site | Acute gastroenteritis, %† |
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2013 | 2014 | 2015 | Weighted mean | ||||
Bolivia | 2008 | 99 | 1 | 82 | 65 | 72 | 74 |
2 | 81 | 82 | 96 | 85 | |||
3 | 76 | 65 | 100 | 78 | |||
4 | 56 | 49 | 46 | 52 | |||
5 | 93 | 99 | 88 | 95 | |||
6 | 53 | 50 | 37 | 48 | |||
Total |
74 |
68 |
71 |
72 |
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El Salvador | 2006 | 92 | 1 | 28 | 49 | 57 | 40 |
2 | 40 | 38 | 24 | 35 | |||
3 | 48 | 41 | 41 | 44 | |||
4 | 51 | 34 | 30 | 40 | |||
5 | 59 | 46 | 75 | 61 | |||
6 | 44 | 29 | 19 | 30 | |||
7 | 22 | 6 | NA | 14 | |||
8 | 62 | 54 | 54 | 57 | |||
Total |
45 |
35 |
43 |
41 |
|||
Paraguay | 2009 | 93 | 1 | 96 | 97 | 100 | 98 |
2 | 100 | 84 | NA | 89 | |||
3 | 78 | 100 | 100 | 94 | |||
4 | 100 | 97 | 100 | 99 | |||
Total |
92 |
97 |
100 |
96 |
|||
Indonesia | NA | NA | 1 | NA | 98 | 95 | 97 |
2 | NA | 95 | 91 | 93 | |||
3 | NA | 97 | 99 | 98 | |||
4 | NA | 61 | 70 | 66 | |||
5 | NA | 68 | 58 | 63 | |||
Total | NA | 83 | 86 | 85 |
*NA, not available; WHO, World Health Organization.
†These calculations include nonspecified diarrhea in the denominator. Thus, individual site years might have higher percentage acute gastroenteritis if this category is excluded.
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1Additional members of the Global Rotavirus Surveillance Network Clinical Presentation Group who contributed data are listed at the end of this article.
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