Epidemiology of Shigella infections and diarrhea in the first two years of life using culture-independent diagnostics in 8 low-resource settings.

Culture-independent diagnostics have revealed a larger burden of Shigella among children in low-resource settings than previously recognized. We further characterized the epidemiology of Shigella in the first two years of life in a multisite birth cohort. We tested 41,405 diarrheal and monthly non-d...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth T Rogawski McQuade, Fariha Shaheen, Furqan Kabir, Arjumand Rizvi, James A Platts-Mills, Fatima Aziz, Adil Kalam, Shahida Qureshi, Sarah Elwood, Jie Liu, Aldo A M Lima, Gagandeep Kang, Pascal Bessong, Amidou Samie, Rashidul Haque, Estomih R Mduma, Margaret N Kosek, Sanjaya Shrestha, Jose Paulo Leite, Ladaporn Bodhidatta, Nicola Page, Ireen Kiwelu, Sadia Shakoor, Ali Turab, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Tahmeed Ahmed, Eric R Houpt, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Najeeha Talat Iqbal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-08-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008536