International Journal of Medical Advances and Discoveries

International Journal of Medical Advances and Discovery ISSN 2756-3812 Vol. 3 (6), pp. 001-004, June, 2012. © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Early preventive measures are effective against transmission of rotavirus disease from person to person in the hospital environment.

Guillermo Sólomon Santibáñez¹, Jaime Ramírez Mayans², Napoleon González Saldaña³, Hilda Hernández Orozco³, Jose Luis Castañeda Narvaez³, Ester Lombardo Aburto⁴, Natividad Navarrete Delgadillo⁵, Wendy Domínguez Viveros⁴, Hugo Juárez Olguín⁶

¹Dirección General, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría (INP), México

²Dirección Médica, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría (INP), México.

³Comité de Infecciones, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría (INP), México.

⁴Servicio de Epidemiología, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría (INP), México.

⁵Laboratorio de Virología, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría (INP), México.

⁶Laboratorio de Farmacología, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría (INP), México.

Accepted 13 April, 2012

Abstract

An observational surveillance study was carried out to describe the outbreak of rotavirus in a pediatric hospital in Mexico City. A total of 13 cases of intra hospital rotavirus infections were identified. None of these cases was vaccinated against rotavirus. The average duration of hospitalization of the patients was 11 days (range 3 to 33 days). Implementation of contact precautionary measures successfully ended the outbreak 21 days after detection. All cases were successfully managed and treated with symptomatic measures. We corroborate the importance of implementation of early preventive measures in intra hospital outbreaks of rotavirus for adequate control.

Keywords: Intra hospital, outbreak, rotavirus, prevention.