Table 1. Sociodemographic and clinical and treatment characteristics of children in a rotavirus surveillance study in Niamey and Maradi region, Niger, April 2010–March 2012*.
| Characteristic | Total, N = 9,747 | Children, by location |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niamey, n = 1,196 | Maradi region, district |
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| Maradi, n = 962 | Madarounfa, n = 2,965 | Aguie, n = 748 | Guidan Roumdji, n = 3,876 | |||
| Sex | ||||||
| F | 4,329 (44.4) | 481 (40.2) | 442 (46.0) | 1,401 (47.3) | 309 (41.3) | 1,696 (43.8) |
| M |
5,416 (55.6) |
715 (59.8) |
518 (54.0) |
1,564(52.8) |
439 (58.7) |
2,180 (56.2) |
| Age, mo, median (IQR) |
9 (7–12) |
9 (6–12) |
9 (6–14) |
9 (7–12) |
8 (6–11) |
10 (7–13) |
| Type of sample collected | ||||||
| Stool | 6,765 (69.5) | 678 (56.7) | 749 (77.9) | 2,224 (75.1) | 665 (88.9) | 2,449 (63.3) |
| Rectal swab |
2,974 (30.5) |
518 (43.3) |
213 (22.1) |
739 (24.9) |
83 (11.1) |
1,421 (36.7) |
| Clinical signs/symptoms | ||||||
| Severe dehydration | 1,976 (20.3) | 724 (60.5) | 382 (39.8) | 158 (5.3) | 175 (23.4) | 537 (13.9) |
| Fever | 2,360 (24.2) | 410 (34.3) | 290 (30.2) | 593 (20.0) | 251 (33.6) | 816 (21.1) |
| Vomiting |
6,499 (66.8) |
818 (68.6) |
353 (36.7) |
2,146 (72.5) |
545 (72.9) |
2,637 (68.3) |
| Severe Vesikari score rating | 7,156 (73.5) | 963 (80.6) | 631 (65.7) | 2,227 (75.2) | 563 (75.5) | 2,772 (71.7) |
| IV treatment received | 1,392 (14.3) | 599 (50.1) | 577 (60.0) | 56 (1.9) | 29 (3.9) | 131 (3.4) |
| Hospitalized | 2,529 (26.0) | 917 (76.7) | 924 (96.2) | 153 (5.2) | 57 (7.6) | 478 (12.3) |
| Enrolled in nutrition program | 2,046 (21.0) | 396 (33.2) | 539 (56.0) | 314 (11.0) | 93 (12.4) | 704 (18.2) |
| Died |
255 (2.6) |
119 (10.0) |
48 (5.0) |
50 (1.7) |
16 (2.1) |
22 (0.6) |
| *Data are no. (%) unless otherwise indicated. IQR, interquartile range; IV, intravenous. | ||||||