Ryan Dodd, Alex O Awuor, Paul F Garcia Bardales, Farhana Khanam, Donnie Mategula, Uma Onwuchekwa, Golam Sarwar, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Naveed Ahmed, Hannah E Atlas, Md Amirul Islam Bhuiyan, Josh M Colston, Bakary Conteh, Manan Diawara, Nasrin Dilruba, Sarah Elwood, Irum Fatima, Erika Feutz, Sean R Galagan, Shahinur Haque, Md Taufiqul Islam, Mehrab Karim, Belali Keita, Margaret N Kosek, Karen L Kotloff, Clement Lefu, Mamadou Mballow, Maureen Ndalama, Latif Ndeketa, Billy Ogwel, Caleb Okonji, Maribel Paredes Olortegui, Patricia B Pavlinac, Tackeshy Pinedo Vasquez, James A Platts-Mills, Firdausi Qadri, Sonia Qureshi, Elizabeth T Rogawski McQuade, Shazia Sultana, Moussa Oumar Traore, Nigel A Cunliffe, M Jahangir Hossain, Richard Omore, Farah Naz Qamar, Milagritos D Tapia, Pablo Peñataro Yori, K Zaman, Christine J McGrath
BACKGROUND: Accurate estimation of diarrhea incidence from facility-based surveillance requires estimating the population at risk and accounting for case patients who do not seek care. The Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Shigella surveillance study will characterize population denominators and healthcare-seeking behavior proportions to calculate incidence rates of Shigella diarrhea in children aged 6-35 months across 7 sites in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. METHODS: The Enterics for Global Health (EFGH) Shigella surveillance study will use a hybrid surveillance design, supplementing facility-based surveillance with population-based surveys to estimate population size and the proportion of children with diarrhea brought for care at EFGH health facilities...
March 2024: Open Forum Infectious Diseases