Abstracto

Trends of Post-vaccination Rotavirus infection and its association with other viruses

Afza Shabbir

Since its discovery back 40 years ago, Rota virus (RV) has remained one of the major public health concerns and a third leading cause of infants as well as childhood mortality and morbidity. In the recent past, every third child was at the risk of diarrhea specially in Asia and Africa, owing to the lack of proper healthcare facility, signifying RV as their prime origin. RV infection is referred to as a seasonality- based infection and sometimes called as ‘winter vomiting disease’ but in some regions it is present round the year. According to an estimate, 90% of RV infection- based mortalities occur in developing region of the world.