Table 2.

Clinical Features of Acute Gastroenteritis in Young Children Associated With GII-4 and Other NoV Genotypes.

	Children with NoV genotype
	GII-4	Others	P-value
Variable	(no.= 40)	(no.= 88)
Age, months	18 (16-20)*	17 (9-19)	0.094
Diarrhoea
Days	2 (1–3.75)*	1 (0-2)	0.006
Maximum number of times/day	4 (1- 6)*	3 (0-4)	0.003
Vomiting
Days	2 (1–2.75)*	1 (1-2)	0.014
Maximum number of times/day	3 (2–5.75)*	3 (1-5)	0.326
Severity score
Points	7 (6-9)*,**	6 (4-7)	0.002

NOTE. *Reported as median value followed by the interquartile range in parentheses (Mann-Whitney U-test).

** The severity score points was assessed according to the clinical symptoms (duration of diarrhoea and vomiting (days), maximum number of diarrhoeal stools and vomiting episodes in 24 hours, fever, treatment and dehydration) [7].