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Volume 24, Number 11—November 2018
Research

Norovirus Gastroenteritis among Hospitalized Patients, Germany, 2007–2012

Frank KowalzikComments to Author , Harald Binder, Daniela Zöller, Margarita Riera-Montes, Ralf Clemens1, Thomas Verstraeten, and Fred Zepp
Author affiliations: University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (F. Kowalzik, H. Binder, D. Zöller, F. Zepp); P95 Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology Services, Leuven, Belgium (M. Riera-Montes, T. Verstraeten); Takeda Pharmaceutical International AG, Zurich, Switzerland (R. Clemens)

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Table 1

Total annual number of AGE hospitalizations and deaths in hospital (all ages), Germany 2007–2012*

Pathogen 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Average
Hospitalizations†
Norovirus 53,701 67,130 63,307 91,001 67,934 66,051 68,187
Rotavirus 37,374 34,978 43,273 35,986 35,365 32,639 34,857
All causes
 328,033
 341,352
 309,351
 394,753
 371,851
 359,933
 350,879
Deaths‡
Norovirus 194 201 173 265 191 194 203
Rotavirus 30 55 56 53 42 40 46
All causes 2,046 2,532 2,510 2,981 3,262 3,420 2,792

*AGE, acute gastroenteritis.
†All AGE (primary and secondary diagnoses).
‡AGE as primary diagnosis only.

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1Current affiliation: Global Research in Infectious Diseases, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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