Katia Manzanares Villanueva, Tackeshy Pinedo Vasquez, Pablo Peñataro Yori, Lucero Romaina Cacique, Paul F Garcia Bardales, Wagner V Shapiama Lopez, Fiorella Zegarra Paredes, Karin F Perez, Silvia Rengifo Pinedo, Hermann Silva Delgado, Thomas Flynn, Francesca Schiaffino, Josh M Colston, Maribel Paredes Paredes Olortegui, Margaret N Kosek
BACKGROUND: The Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Peru site will enroll subjects in a periurban area of the low Amazon rainforest. The political department of Loreto lags behind most of Peru in access to improved sources of water and sanitation, per capita income, children born <2.5 kg, and infant and child mortality. Chronic undernutrition as manifested by linear growth shortfalls is common, but wasting and acute malnutrition are not. METHODS: The recruitment of children seeking care for acute diarrheal disease takes place at a geographic cluster of government-based primary care centers in an area where most residents are beneficiaries of free primary healthcare...
March 2024: Open Forum Infectious Diseases