Epidemiology of Rotavirus in the Iranian Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Rotavirus is associated with increased risk for severe diarrhea in infants and young children worldwide. This systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to determine the prevalence rate of rotavirus from different parts of Iran and provide an overall relative frequency (RF) for Iran. We perfo...

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Published in:Journal of global infectious diseases 2017-04, Vol.9 (2), p.66-72
Main Authors: Monavari, Seyed Hamid Reza, Hadifar, Shima, Mostafaei, Shayan, Miri, Ali, Keshavarz, Mohsen, Babaei, Farhad, Moghoofei, Mohsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Care and treatment
Children
Developing countries
Diarrhea
Enzymes
Epidemiology
Gastroenteritis
Immunoassay
infant
Infants
Infections
Iran
Laboratories
LDCs
Literature reviews
Medicine
Meta-analysis
Mortality
Patient outcomes
Review
Risk factors
rotavirus
rotavirus infection
Rotaviruses
Search strategies
Studies
Surveillance
Vaccines
Virology
Viruses
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Summary:Rotavirus is associated with increased risk for severe diarrhea in infants and young children worldwide. This systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to determine the prevalence rate of rotavirus from different parts of Iran and provide an overall relative frequency (RF) for Iran. We performed a systematic literature review from several databases including PubMed, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, OVID, MAG IRAN, IranMedex, and Iranian Scientific Information Database. We searched the following keywords: "rotavirus," "rotavirus infection," "acute gastroenteritis," "diarrhea," "children," "infant," and "Iran." The purpose of this study was to report the prevalence of rotavirus with the application of meta-analysis. We selected 43 researches out of 1147 for our study. From all the samples, the pooled estimate of prevalence (95% confidence interval) =39.9% (0.396%-0.409%) were rotavirus positive. It should be noted that rotavirus infection's RF varied from 6.4% to 79.3% in Birjand and Tehran Provinces, respectively. Thereupon, it is divergent in different studies. According to our study result, rotavirus RF has a wide range in Iran and is associated with diarrhea in children. Thus, further researches should be taken to minimize the emergence and transmission of rotavirus.
ISSN:0974-777X
0974-8245
DOI:10.4103/0974-777x.205173