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ArticleEpidemiology and infection2024

Assessment and comparison of model estimated and directly observed weather data for prediction of diarrhoea aetiology.

Ben J Brintz, Josh M Colston, Sharia M Ahmed, Dennis L Chao, Benjamin F Zaitchik, Daniel T Leung

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Article in Epidemiology and infection, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Association between Weather Variables and Viral Gastroenteritis in the United States.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ben J BrintzDivision of Epidemiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4695-0290
Josh M ColstonDivision of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Sharia M AhmedDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Dennis L ChaoInstitute for Disease Modeling, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA.
Benjamin F ZaitchikDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Daniel T LeungDivision of Infectious Diseases, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8401-0801

Funding

CTSA UM1 Program at University of UtahUM1TR004409 · NCATS · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI RACHEL HESS, Jennifer Juhl Majersik · 2023 to 2026
$21.9M
Development of clinical decision tools for management of diarrhea of children in high and low resource settingsR01AI135114 · NIAID · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI LEUNG, DANIEL TED · 2018 to 2025
$4.0M
Mentoring patient-oriented researchers in pediatric diarrheaK24AI166087 · NIAID · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI Daniel Ted Leung · 2023 to 2026
$688k
Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases R01AI135114NCATS NIH HHS UM1 TR004409NIAID NIH HHS K24 AI166087NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI135114
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in clinical prediction for diarrhoeal aetiology in low- and middle-income countries have revealed that the addition of weather data to clinical data improves predictive performance. However, the optimal source of weather data remains unclear. We aim to compare the use of model estimated satellite- and ground-based observational data with weather station directly observed data for the prediction of aetiology of diarrhoea. We used clinical and etiological data from a large multi-centre study of children with moderate to severe diarrhoea cases to compare their predictive performances. We show that the two sources of weather conditions perform similarly in most locations. We conclude that while model estimated data is a viable, scalable tool for public health interventions and disease prediction, given its ease of access, directly observed weather station data is likely adequate for the prediction of diarrhoeal aetiology in children in low- and middle-income countries.

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DiarrheaWeatherChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansInfantMaleModels, StatisticalAetiologyClinical PredictionGlobal HealthInfectious DiarrhoeaWeather

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PMID39381928
PMCPMC11488466

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