Burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis in the Middle Eastern and North African pediatric population

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Literature capture and data sources by country

Country	Epidemiology			Genotype combination data	Morbidity and Mortality		Disease Burden
	Incidence	Proportion RVGE	Seasonality		Disease severity	Mortality	Resource use	Costs
Multicountry*		[18]^†				[55]^‡
Algeria						[55]
Bahrain						[55]
Egypt	[21]	[17–21]	[19, 21]	[17, 17, 18, 18, 21, 53]	[19, 21, 51]	[55]	[19, 51]
Iran		[18, 22–27]	[22, 23, 26, 27]	[18, 22, 26]		[55]	[25]
Iraq		[18, 28]		[28]		[55]
Israel				[52]		[55]	[52, 57]	[52]
Jordan		[18, 29]		[18]	[29]	[55]	[29]
Kuwait		[30]		[30]		[55]
Libya		[18, 31, 32]	[31]	[32]		[55]
Morocco		[18, 33]	[33]	[18, 33]	[33]	[55]	[33]
Oman		[18, 34, 35]	[34]	[18, 34, 35]		[55]	[34]	[34]
Qatar						[55]
Saudi Arabia		[36–40]	[37]	[36–38]		[55]
Syria		[18]				[55]
Tunisia		[18, 41–46]	[42, 45, 46]	[41, 44, 44, 46]	[42]	[55]
Turkey		[14, 15, 47–50]	[14, 15, 49, 50]	[14, 15, 48]	[15, 47, 50]	[55]	[15, 47, 50]
UAE						[55]
Yemen		[18]		[18]		[55]

*Where country-specific data was available within a multicountry study, it has been extracted. Therefore, the relevant reference has been added to individual countries above
†Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen
‡All countries

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