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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2017

A High Burden of Asymptomatic Gastrointestinal Infections in Traditional Communities in Papua New Guinea.

Paul F Horwood, Kevin W Soli, Tobias Maure, Yuichi I Naito, Ayako Morita, Kazumi Natsuhara, Kiyoshi Tadokoro, Jun Baba, Shingo Odani, Eriko Tomitsuka and 7 more

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Paul F HorwoodPapua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
Kevin W SoliPapua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
Tobias MaurePapua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
Yuichi I NaitoDepartment of Biogeochemistry, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan.
Ayako MoritaDepartment of Human Ecology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Kazumi NatsuharaFaculty of Nursing, The Japanese Red Cross Akita College of Nursing, Akita, Japan.
Kiyoshi TadokoroDepartment of Human Ecology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Jun BabaResearch Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo, Japan.
Shingo OdaniFaculty of Letter, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
Eriko TomitsukaDepartment of Health Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Sciences, Niigata City, Japan.
Katsura IgaiGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Jo-Ann LarkinsSchool of Applied and Biomedical Sciences, Federation University Australia, Victoria, Australia.
Peter M SibaPapua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
William PomatPapua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
Emma S McBrydeAustralian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.
Masahiro UmezakiDepartment of Human Ecology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Andrew R GreenhillSchool of Applied and Biomedical Sciences, Federation University Australia, Victoria, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stool samples were collected from 148 healthy adults living a traditional subsistence lifestyle in Papua New Guinea and screened for enteric pathogens using real-time RT-PCR/PCR assays. Enteric pathogens were detected in a high proportion (41%) of individuals. Clear differences were observed in the detection of pathogens between highland and lowland communities. In particular, there was a marked difference in detection rates of norovirus GII (20% and 0%, respectively) and

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AdultAsymptomatic InfectionsCampylobacterCross-Sectional StudiesDiarrheaEnteropathogenic Escherichia coliEnterotoxigenic Escherichia coliFecesGastrointestinal DiseasesGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHelicobacter pyloriHumansNorovirusPapua New GuineaShigella

Identifiers

PMID29016338
PMCPMC5805050

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