Corrected 2007 Rotavirus Hospitalization Rates

To the Editors: Our manuscript, “Secular variation in US rotavirus disease rates and serotypes – Implications for assessing the rotavirus vaccination program,” was published in the November 2009 issue of The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. Recently, as we were conducting routine updates to our rotavirus hospitalization rate programming code, we came upon a minor coding error in the 2007 rotavirus hospitalization rate calculation program. This coding error resulted in a slight overestimation of our 2007 rotavirus hospitalization rates. This did not affect the overall conclusions. The corrected 2007 rotavirus hospitalization rates are shown in Tables 1 and 2.TABLE 1: Corrected 2007 Rotavirus Hospitalizations Rates (with 95% Confidence Intervals) for NVSN Surveillance SitesTABLE 2: Corrected 2007 Rotavirus Hospitalizations Rates per 10,000 Children by Age in Months and by NVSN Surveillance SiteDaniel C. Payne, PhD, MSPH Epidemiology Branch Division of Viral Diseases National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Peter G. Szilagyi, MD, MPH Department of Pediatrics University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Mary Allen Staat, MD, MPH Department of Pediatrics University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Kathryn M. Edwards, MD Departments of Pediatrics Vanderbilt University Medical Center Jon R. Gentsch, PhD Gastroenteritis and Respiratory Viruses Laboratory Branch Division of Viral Diseases National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Geoffrey A. Weinberg, MD Caroline B. Hall, MD Department of Pediatrics University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Rochester, NY Aaron T. Curns, MPH Epidemiology Branch Division of Viral Diseases National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Haley Clayton, MPH Epidemiology BranchDivision of Viral Diseases National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, GA Atlanta Research and Education Foundation Decatur, GA Marie R. Griffin, MD, MPH Departments of Medicineand Preventive Medicine Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN Gerry Fairbrother, PhD Department of Pediatrics University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OH Umesh D. Parashar, MBBS, MPH Epidemiology Branch Division of Viral Diseases National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, GA