Direct and possible indirect effects of vaccination on rotavirus hospitalisations among children in Malawi four years after programmatic introduction.

CONCLUSIONS: Following rotavirus vaccine introduction in Malawi, prevalence of rotavirus in hospitalised children with AGE has declined significantly, with some evidence of an indirect effect in infants. Despite this, rotavirus remains an important cause of severe diarrhoea in Malawian children, particularly in the second year of life.
PMID: 29887320 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Vaccine - June 7, 2018 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Bennett A, Pollock L, Jere KC, Pitzer VE, Parashar U, Tate JE, Heyderman RS, Mwansambo C, French N, Nakagomi O, Iturriza-Gomara M, Everett D, Cunliffe NA, Bar-Zeev N, VacSurv Consortium Tags: Vaccine Source Type: research