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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2010

Case-control study of diarrheal disease etiology in a remote rural area in Western Thailand.

Ladaporn Bodhidatta, Philip McDaniel, Siriporn Sornsakrin, Apichai Srijan, Oralak Serichantalergs, Carl J Mason

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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47citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ladaporn BodhidattaDepartment of Enteric Diseases, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS), Bangkok, Thailand. ladapornb@afrims.org
Philip McDaniel
Siriporn Sornsakrin
Apichai Srijan
Oralak Serichantalergs
Carl J Mason
Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science · TH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective was to assess the association of enteric pathogens in diarrheal disease in a remote rural area in Thailand. Stool specimens were collected from 236 children aged 3 months to 5 years with acute diarrhea (cases) and from 236 asymptomatic controls. Standard microbiologic methods, and enzyme immunoassay for viral pathogens, Giardia, and Cryptosporidium, were used to identify enteric pathogens with susceptibility testing by disk diffusion. Campylobacter, Plesiomonas, Salmonella, and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli were commonly isolated from cases and controls (22% versus 25%, 10% versus 11%, 6% versus 9%, and 10% versus 6%, respectively). Only Shigella, rotavirus, and adenovirus were identified significantly more frequently in cases than controls (9% versus 0%, 18% versus 3%, and 16% versus 2%, respectively), whereas Giardia lamblia was detected less often in cases than controls. Most pre-school children were infested with enteric pathogens; laboratory-based studies are important to understand the epidemiology of enteric pathogens in remote areas among marginal populations.

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Age DistributionBacterial InfectionsCase-Control StudiesChild, PreschoolDiarrheaFecesFemaleGiardiasisHumansInfantMalePrevalenceRural PopulationThailandVirus Diseases

Identifiers

PMID21036846
PMCPMC2963978
OpenAlexW2141467959

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