ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2025
Leveraging Data From a Longitudinal Birth Cohort to Improve Attribution of Diarrhea Etiology Among Children in Low-Resource Settings.
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- Natural history parameters for enteric pathogens to inform modeling studies of diarrhea among children in low-resource settings: results from the MAL-ED longitudinal birth cohort.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Pathways through which water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition interventions reduce antibiotic use in young children: a mediation analysis of a cohort nested within a cluster-randomized trial.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Pathways through which water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition interventions reduce antibiotic use in young children: a mediation analysis of a cluster-randomized trial.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Attributing infectious causes of diarrhea is critical to inform treatment and burden estimates. The attributable fraction (AF) approach based on the association between pathogen quantity and diarrhea has been frequently used but may underestimate incidence. We leveraged data from the multisite birth-cohort Malnutrition and Enteric Disease (MAL-ED) Study, where diarrheal and nondiarrheal stools were collected from 1715 children aged 0-2 years. We compared attribution using a longitudinal AF method that considers the temporal association between pathogen quantity and diarrhea symptoms to previously published AF estimates. For rotavirus and Shigella, attribution did not meaningfully change. For others like adenovirus 40 and 41, astrovirus, norovirus GII, sapovirus, Campylobacter jejuni or Campylobacter coli, heat-stable toxin enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, typical enteropathogenic E. coli, and Cryptosporidium attribution increased, demonstrating longitudinal data may be informative for pathogens with weak associations between quantity and diarrhea. We further derived accuracy-based, pathogen-specific quantity cutoffs that may improve attribution in the absence of longitudinal data.
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