Clinical and nutritional correlates of bacterial diarrhoea aetiology in young children: a secondary cross-sectional analysis of the ABCD trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective was to assess the association between nutritional and clinical characteristics and quantitative PCR (qPCR)-diagnosis of bacterial diarrhoea in a multicentre cohort of children under 2 years of age with moderate to severe diarrhoea (MSD).

Design

A secondary cross-sectional analysis of baseline data collected from the AntiBiotics for Children with Diarrhoea trial (NCT03130114).

Patients

Children with MSD (defined as >3 loose stools within 24 hours and presenting with at least one of the following: some/severe dehydration, moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) or severe stunting) enrolled in the ABCD trial and collected stool sample.

Study period

June 2017-July 2019.

Interventions

None.

Main outcome measures

Likely bacteria

SUBMITTER: Somji S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11015214 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature