Jessica A Grembi, Anna T Nguyen, Marie Riviere, Gabriella Barratt Heitmann, Arusha Patil, Tejas S Athni, Stephanie Djajadi, Ayse Ercumen, Audrie Lin, Yoshika Crider, Andrew Mertens, Md Abdul Karim, Md Ohedul Islam, Rana Miah, Syeda L Famida, Md Saheen Hossen, Palash Mutsuddi, Shahjahan Ali, Md Ziaur Rahman, Zahir Hussain, Abul K Shoab, Rashidul Haque, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Stephen P Luby, Benjamin F Arnold, Adam Bennett, Jade Benjamin-Chung
BACKGROUND: A number of studies have detected relationships between weather and diarrhea. Few have investigated associations with specific enteric pathogens. Understanding pathogen-specific relationships with weather is crucial to inform public health in low-resource settings that are especially vulnerable to climate change. OBJECTIVES: Our objectives were to identify weather and environmental risk factors associated with diarrhea and enteropathogen prevalence in young children in rural Bangladesh, a population with high diarrheal disease burden and vulnerability to weather shifts under climate change...
May 13, 2024: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases