Reports from Emory University highlight recent research in diarrhea vaccines

A new study, 'Deaths from rotavirus disease in Bangladeshi children: estimates from hospital-based surveillance,' is now available. In this recent study, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To assess the potential health benefits of introducing new rotavirus (RV) vaccines, we estimated mortality from RV gastroenteritis in Bangladeshi children <5 years of age. We examined data from ongoing diarrhea surveillance in a systematic 2% sample (4% until 1995) of patients visiting the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka Hospital during 1993-2004 and all patients visiting the rural Matlab Hospital during 2000-2004."

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