Table 1.
Acute gastroenteritis by infectious etiology among children ≤ 5 years from year 2001 to 2005 according to Minimum Basic Data Set (MBDS).
| Number of hospitalizations (%) | ||||||
| 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2001–2005 | |
| Etiology unspecified | ||||||
| Presumed infectious | 4,715 (42.9) | 3,916 (41.7) | 3,844 (38.2) | 3,935 (36.7) | 3,468 (31.7) | 19,878 (38.1) |
| Etiology specified | ||||||
| Viral total: | 3,090 (28.1) | 2,405 (25.5) | 3,009 (29.8) | 4,109 (38.3) | 5,131 (46.8) | 17,744 (34.0) |
| Rotavirus | 2,977 (27.1) | 2,129 (22.6) | 2,723 (27.0) | 3,718 (34.7) | 4,708 (43.0) | 16,255 (31.2) |
| Others | 113 (1.0) | 276 (2.9) | 286 (2.8) | 391 (3.6) | 423 (3.8) | 1,489 (2.8) |
| Bacterial total: | 3,125 (28.4) | 3,040 (32.3) | 3,158 (31.3) | 2,610 (24.3) | 2,304(21.0) | 14,237 (27.3) |
| Salmonella | 1,942 (17.7) | 1,892 (20.1) | 2,074 (20.6) | 1,743 (16.2) | 1,479 (13.5) | 9,130 (17.5) |
| Others | 1,183 (10.7) | 1,148 (12.2) | 1,084 (10.7) | 867 (8.1) | 825 (7.5) | 5,107 (9.8) |
| Parasitic | 41 (0.6) | 26 (0.5) | 48 (0.7) | 42 (0.7) | 30 (0.5) | 187 (0.6) |
| Total | 10,971 | 9,387 | 10,059 | 10,696 | 10,933 | 52,046 |