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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
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Estimating global, regional and national rotavirus deaths in children aged <5 years: Current approaches, new analyses and proposed improvements
PLoS ONE, Volume 12, No. 9, Article e0183392, Year 2017
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Background: Rotavirus is a leading cause of diarrhoeal mortality in children but there is considerable disagreement about how many deaths occur each year. Methods and findings: We compared CHERG, GBD and WHO/CDC estimates of age under 5 years (U5) rotavirus deaths at the global, regional and national level using a standard year (2013) and standard list of 186 countries. The global estimates were 157,398 (CHERG), 122,322 (GBD) and 215,757 (WHO/CDC). The three groups used different methods: (i) to select data points for rotavirus-positive proportions; (ii) to extrapolate data points to individual countries; (iii) to account for rotavirus vaccine coverage; (iv) to convert rotavirus-positive proportions to rotavirus attributable fractions; and (v) to calculate uncertainty ranges. We conducted new analyses to inform future estimates. We found that acute watery diarrhoea was associated with 87% (95% CI 83–90%) of U5 diarrhoea hospitalisations based on data from 84 hospital sites in 9 countries, and 65% (95% CI 57–74%) of U5 diarrhoea deaths based on verbal autopsy reports from 9 country sites. We reanalysed data from the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) and found 44% (55% in Asia, and 32% in Africa) rotavirus-positivity among U5 acute watery diarrhoea hospitalisations, and 28% rotavirus-positivity among U5 acute watery diarrhoea deaths. 97% (95% CI 95–98%) of the U5 diarrhoea hospitalisations that tested positive for rotavirus were entirely attributable to rotavirus. For all clinical syndromes combined the rotavirus attributable fraction was 34% (95% CI 31–36%). This increased by a factor of 1.08 (95% CI 1.02–1.14) when the GEMS results were reanalysed using a more sensitive molecular test. Conclusions: We developed consensus on seven proposals for improving the quality and transparency of future rotavirus mortality estimates. © 2017, Public Library of Science. All rights reserved. This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Clark, Andrew David
United Kingdom, London
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Black, Robert E.
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Tate, Jacqueline E.
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Roose, Anna W.
United States, Baltimore
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Kotloff, Karen L.
United States, Baltimore
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Lam, Diana F.H.
United States, Baltimore
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Blackwelder, William C.
United States, Baltimore
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Parashar, Umesh D.
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Lanata, Claudio Franco
Peru, Lima
Instituto de Investigacion Nutricional
United States, Nashville
Vanderbilt University
Kang, Gagandeep
India, Vellore
Christian Medical College, Vellore
Troeger, Christopher E.
United States, Seattle
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Platts-Mills, James A.
United States, Charlottesville
University of Virginia
Mokdad, Ali H.I.
United States, Seattle
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Sanderson, Colin F.B.
United Kingdom, London
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Lamberti, Laura M.
Unknown Affiliation
Levin, Myron J.
United States, Baltimore
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Santosham, Mathuram
United States, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Steele, Duncan A.
Unknown Affiliation
Rugambwa, Celse
Switzerland, Geneva
Organisation Mondiale de la Santé
Mpabalwani, Evans Mwila
Unknown Affiliation
Mwenda, Jason Mathiu
Switzerland, Geneva
Organisation Mondiale de la Santé
Murray, Jillian S.
Switzerland, Geneva
Organisation Mondiale de la Santé
Cohen, Adam Lauren
Switzerland, Geneva
Organisation Mondiale de la Santé
Statistics
Citations: 91
Authors: 23
Affiliations: 11
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0183392
ISSN:
19326203
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Infectious Diseases
Maternal And Child Health