ROTAVIRUS GASTROENTERITIS AND WEATHER
ROTAVIRUS GASTROENTERITIS AND WEATHER
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DOI：
10.1128/jcm.16.3.478-482.1982
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发表时间：
1982-01-01
影响因子：
9.4
通讯作者：
PARROTT, RH
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作者：
BRANDT, CD;KIM, HW;PARROTT, RH
在华盛顿特区进行了5.5年的研究期间[美国]，在寒冷或干燥的一个月之后，轮状病毒胃肠炎儿童住院的情况往往比相应的温暖或潮湿的日历月之后更常见。总体而言，轮状病毒胃肠炎的住院患者在将一组相对较冷的月份作为一组后，比将相同数量的对应日历月作为一组温暖后多84%(178比97)。在非轮状病毒胃肠炎患者中则没有类似的差异。与降雨量最大的月份相比，降雨量最小的月份之后轮状病毒的住院率也增加了45%。轮状病毒在幼儿中的感染，也就是最不可能直接暴露在室外条件下的儿童，表现出一些最明显的与天气相关的影响。因此，与天气有关的室内相对湿度低和室内拥挤可能是轮状病毒病流行病学的关键因素。
During 5.5 yr of a study in Washington, D.C. [USA], hospitalizations of children for rotavirus gastroenteritis tended to be more common after a month of cold or dry weather than after a corresponding calendar month of warm or wet weather. Overall, there were 84% more (178 vs. 97) inpatients with rotavirus gastroenteritis after a set of relatively colder individual months taken as a group than after an equal number of warmer corresponding calendar months taken as a group. Comparable differences were not seen with nonrotavirus gastroenteritis patients. There also were 45% more rotavirus hospitalizations after the set of months with the least depth of precipitation compared with the set of corresponding calendar months with the greatest depth of precipitation. Rotavirus infection in young infants, the children least likely to be directly exposed to outdoor conditions, showed some of the most marked weather-associated effects. Thus, weather-related low indoor relative humidity and indoor crowding may be key factors in the epidemiology of rotavirus disease.