Case-Control Pilot Study on Acute Diarrheal Disease in a Geographically Defined Pediatric Population in a Middle Income Country

• Main Authors: Ana E. Farfán-García (Author), Chengxian Zhang (Author), Aamer Imdad (Author), Monica Y. Arias-Guerrero (Author), Nayibe T. Sánchez-Alvarez (Author), Rikhil Shah (Author), Junaid Iqbal (Author), Maria E. Tamborski (Author), Oscar G. Gómez-Duarte (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction. Acute diarrheal disease (ADD) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in children under 5 years of age. Understanding of the etiology of ADD is lacking in most low and middle income countries because reference laboratories detect limited number of pathogens. The objective of this...