Rotavirus

These archived reports include information on rotavirus in children aged under 5 years in New Zealand following the introduction of a vaccine into the national childhood immunisation schedule in July 2014. Two reports were produced in 2015 and 2016.

Surveillance for rotavirus infections is based on information from a variety of sources including national hospital discharges, sentinel hospital-based surveillance, community and hospital laboratory testing, and genotyping of rotavirus-positive samples.