Table 1.
Demographic profile (age and sex distribution) of norovirus strains detected in older children and adult patients living in rural communities of the Vhembe district, Limpopo province.
| Age of patients (years) | No of stool samples collected (%) | Sex of patients | No of stool samples positive for NoV (%) | Sex of positive NoV samples (%) | Clinical symptoms in positive samples | Stool type of positive samples | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Diarrhoea only | Diarrhoea and vomiting | Diarrhoea and APC∗ | Diarrhoea and other symptoms | Watery | Formed | Soft | |||
| 5–10 | 17/80 (21%) | 13 | 4 | 5/17 (29%) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 11–18 | 16/80 (20%) | 9 | 7 | 1/16 (6%) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 19–21 | 3/80 (4%) | 1 | 2 | 0/3 (0%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22–30 | 7/80 (9%) | 2 | 5 | 0/7 (0%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31–40 | 14/80 (18%) | 3 | 11 | 1/14 (7%) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 41–50 | 11/80 (14%) | 3 | 8 | 2/11 (18%) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| ≥50 | 12/80 (15%) | 1 | 11 | 4/12 (33%) | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 80/80 (100%) | 32 | 48 | 13/80 (16%) | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 5 |
∗APC, abdominal pain cramp; NoV, norovirus.