Exploring Survey-Based Water, Sanitation, and Animal Associations With Enteric Pathogen Carriage: Comparing Results in a Cohort of Cases With Moderate-to-Severe Diarrhea to Those in Controls in the Vaccine Impact on Diarrhea in Africa (VIDA) Study, 2015-2018.
David M BerendesRichard OmoreGraeme Prentice-MottKirsten FagerliSunkyung KimDilruba NasrinHelen PowellM Jahangir HossainSamba O SowSanogo DohJoquina Chiquita M JonesJohn B OchiengJane JumaAlex O AwuorBilly OgwelJennifer R VeraniMarc-Alain WiddowsonIrene N KasumbaSharon M TennantAnna RooseSyed M A ZamanJie LiuCiara E SugermanJames A Platts-MillsEric R HouptKaren L KotloffEric D MintzPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2023)
Findings underscore the importance of enteric pathogen exposure risks from animals alongside more broadly recognized water and sanitation risk factors in children.