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

• Main Authors: Elizabeth T Rogawski McQuade (Author), Fariha Shaheen (Author), Furqan Kabir (Author), Arjumand Rizvi (Author), James A Platts-Mills (Author), Fatima Aziz (Author), Adil Kalam (Author), Shahida Qureshi (Author), Sarah Elwood (Author), Jie Liu (Author), Aldo A M Lima (Author), Gagandeep Kang (Author), Pascal Bessong (Author), Amidou Samie (Author), Rashidul Haque (Author), Estomih R Mduma (Author), Margaret N Kosek (Author), Sanjaya Shrestha (Author), Jose Paulo Leite (Author), Ladaporn Bodhidatta (Author), Nicola Page (Author), Ireen Kiwelu (Author), Sadia Shakoor (Author), Ali Turab (Author), Sajid Bashir Soofi (Author), Tahmeed Ahmed (Author), Eric R Houpt (Author), Zulfiqar Bhutta (Author), Najeeha Talat Iqbal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...