Table 5.
Incidence of gastrointestinal infections according to aetiology.
| Microorganism | Gastrointestinal Infection (GI) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | GI/100 Admissions | GI/1000 pds | GI/10,000 pds | |
| Gram-positive other | |||||
| Clostridium difficile | 307 | 49.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 3.7 |
| Viruses | |||||
| Rotavirus | 103 | 16.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.3 |
| Adenovirus | 5 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Norovirus | 46 | 7.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
| Total | 461 | 73.9 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 5.6 |
| Negative result | 131 | 21.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.6 |
| Not collected | 32 | 5.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
pds—patient-days of hospitalisation (n = 821,088), number of hospitalisations (n = 159,028).