Infectious diseases in children and adolescents in China: analysis of national surveillance data from 2008 to 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To outline which infectious diseases in the pre-covid-19 era persist in children and adolescents in China and to describe recent trends and variations by age, sex, season, and province.

Design

National surveillance studies, 2008-17.

Setting

31 provinces in mainland China.

Participants

4 959 790 Chinese students aged 6 to 22 years with a diagnosis of any of 44 notifiable infectious diseases. The diseases were categorised into seven groups: quarantinable; vaccine preventable; gastrointestinal and enteroviral; vectorborne; zoonotic; bacterial; and sexually transmitted and bloodborne.

Main outcome measures

Diagnosis of, and deaths from, 44 notifiable infectious diseases.

Results

From 2008 to 2017, 44 notifiable infectious diseases were diag

SUBMITTER: Dong Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7114954 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature