The Burden of Cryptosporidium Diarrheal Disease among Children < 24 Months of Age in Moderate/High Mortality Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, Utilizing Data from the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS)

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Sow, Samba O ^a   Muhsen, Khitam ^b   Nasrin, Dilruba ^b,c   Blackwelder, William C ^b,c   Wu, Yukun ^b,c,d   Farag, Tamer H ^b,c   Panchalingam, Sandra ^b   Sur, Dipika ^e   Zaidi, Anita K M ^f   Faruque, Abu S G ^g   Saha, Debasish ^h,i   Adegbola, Richard ^h,i   Alonso, Pedro L ^j,k,l   Breiman, Robert F ^m   Bassat, Quique ^j,l   Tamboura, Boubou ^a   Sanogo, Doh ^a   Onwuchekwa, Uma ^a   Manna, Byomkesh ^e   Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ^e   Kanungo, Suman ^e   Ahmed, Shahnawaz ^g   Qureshi, Shahida ^f   Quadri, Farheen ^f   Hossain, Anowar ^g   Das, Sumon K ^g   Antonio, Martin ^h   Hossain, M Jahangir ^h   Mandomando, Inacio ^j,k   Nhampossa, Tacilta ^j,k   Acácio, Sozinho ^j,k   Omore, Richard ^m   Oundo, Joseph O ^m   Ochieng, John B ^m   Mintz, Eric D ⁿ   O’Reilly, Ciara E ⁿ   Berkeley, Lynette Y ^b,c   Livio, Sofie ^b,c   Tennant, Sharon M ^b,c   Sommerfelt, Halvor ^o   Nataro, James P ^b   Ziv Baran, Tomer ^p   Robins Browne, Roy M ^q   Mishcherkin, Vladimir ^b   Zhang, Jixian ^r   Liu, Jie ^r   Houpt, Eric R ^r   Kotloff, Karen L ^b,c   Levine, Myron M ^b,c   more..

^a Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins   (Mali)

^b University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Emergent Biosolutions   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^f AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^g INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^h Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) Unit   (Gambia)

ⁱ GSK   (Belgium)

^j Manhiça Health Research Center   (Mozambique)

^k INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAÚDE   (Mozambique)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^m CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

ⁿ NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^p TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^q UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^r UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM DIARRHEA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOGEN LOAD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; YOUNG ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ASIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST OF ILLNESS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DATA MINING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INDIA; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFGHANISTAN; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ASIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DATA MINING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84971647339     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004729     Document Type: Article

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