ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2016
Population Density, Poor Sanitation, and Enteric Infections in Nueva Santa Rosa, Guatemala.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Infectious Causes of Acute Febrile Illness in Belize, 2020-2022.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2026Article
- Household factors influencing cockroach infestations and helminth parasites: Insights from a rural community in Guatemala.PloS one · 2026Article
- Environmental Exposures Associated with Enteropathogen Infection in Six-Month-Old Children Enrolled in the ECoMiD Cohort along a Rural-Urban Gradient in Northern Ecuador†.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Deprivation and Its Association with Child Health and Nutrition in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area of Uganda.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2024Article
- Antibiotic use and hygiene interact to influence the distribution of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in low-income communities in Guatemala.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Risk factors for childhood enteric infection in urban Maputo, Mozambique: A cross-sectional study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- Prevalence of Human Noroviruses in Commercial Food Establishment Bathrooms.Journal of food protection · 2018Article
- Subclinical Enteric Parasitic Infections and Growth Faltering in Infants in São Tomé, Africa: A Birth Cohort Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Urban sanitation coverage and environmental fecal contamination: Links between the household and public environments of Accra, Ghana.PloS one · 2018Article
- Identification of the core regulators of the HLA I-peptide binding process.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Poor sanitation could pose greater risk for enteric pathogen transmission at higher human population densities because of greater potential for pathogens to infect new hosts through environmentally mediated and person-to-person transmission. We hypothesized that incidence and prevalence of diarrhea, enteric protozoans, and soil-transmitted helminth infections would be higher in high-population-density areas compared with low-population-density areas, and that poor sanitation would pose greater risk for these enteric infections at high density compared with low density. We tested our hypotheses using 6 years of clinic-based diarrhea surveillance (2007-2013) including 4,360 geolocated diarrhea cases tested for 13 pathogens and a 2010 cross-sectional survey that measured environmental exposures from 204 households (920 people) and tested 701 stool specimens for enteric parasites. We found that population density was not a key determinant of enteric infection nor a strong effect modifier of risk posed by poor household sanitation in this setting.
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