Rotavirus and adenovirus infections in children during COVID-19 outbreak in Hangzhou, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aims to investigate the impact of protective measures and isolation on intestinal infection in children before and after COVID-19 outbreak in Hangzhou, China.

Methods

Data on outpatient visits, intestinal infection visits, and tests of adenovirus or rotavirus from electronic healthcare records were extracted in Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine during the COVID-19 outbreak (January-December, 2020), and be compared with those in 2019 during the same period.

Results

We found that pediatric outpatient visits, patients with intestinal infection and its proportion from January to December of 2020 were significantly less than that in the same period of 2019. Furthermore, the numbers of outpatient visits and patients with int

SUBMITTER: Li W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8506064 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature