Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #122159

T. Christopher Mast, PhD, MSc¹, Emmanuel Walter, MD², Monique Bulotsky¹, Shazia Khawaja¹, Daniel DiStefano¹, Walter Straus¹, and Mary Allen Staat³. (1) Department of Epidemiology, Merck Research Laboratories, PO Box 4, BL 1-7, West Point, PA 19486-0004, (2) Roxboro Road Clinic, Duke University Medical Center, NC, 4020 N. Roxboro Rd, Durham, NC 27705, (3) Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039, (513) 636-7083, Mary.Staat@cchmc.org

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the proportion of pediatric acute gastroenteritis associated with rotavirus among hospitalizations, emergency room visits and outpatient visits for children aged < 5 years.
• Describe the direct and indirect economic burden associated with rotavirus in the United States.
• Discuss current rotavirus surveillance findings and evaluate the impact that a future rotavirus vaccine might have childhood morbidity and mortality

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Disclosure not received
Relationship: Not Received.

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