TY - JOUR AU - Muendo, Catherine AU - Laving, Ahmed AU - Kumar, Rashmi AU - Osano, Boniface AU - Egondi, Thaddaeus AU - Njuguna, Pamela PY - 2018 DA - 2018/10/11 TI - Prevalence of rotavirus infection among children with acute diarrhoea after rotavirus vaccine introduction in Kenya, a hospital cross-sectional study JO - BMC Pediatrics SP - 323 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Rotavirus infection is the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis globally in children under 5 years of age and is responsible for approximately 5% of all child deaths yearly. Rotavirus vaccination is considered an effective public health strategy to prevent infection and reduce the severity of disease. Multi-centre country trials on rotavirus vaccines demonstrated efficacy rates of more than 85% in developed countries but only about 65% in developing nations. Rotavirus vaccination was introduced into the Kenya Expanded Programme on Immunization (KEPI) in 2014. The objective of our study was to determine the prevalence of rotavirus infection, severity of acute diarrhoea and to determine the rotavirus vaccination status among children aged 3–24 months presenting with acute diarrhoea at Kenyatta National Hospital after introduction of rotavirus vaccine in Kenya. SN - 1471-2431 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-018-1291-8 DO - 10.1186/s12887-018-1291-8 ID - Muendo2018 ER -