<i>Campylobacter</i> colonization and undernutrition in infants in rural eastern Ethiopia - a longitudinal community-based birth cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Campylobacter is associated with environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) and malnutrition in children. Campylobacter infection could be a linchpin between livestock fecal exposure and health outcomes in low-resource smallholder settings.

Methods

We followed a birth cohort of 106 infants in rural smallholder households in eastern Ethiopia up to 13 months of age. We measured anthropometry, surveyed sociodemographic determinants, and collected stool and urine samples. A short survey was conducted during monthly visits, infant stool samples were collected, and Campylobacter spp. was quantified using genus-specific qPCR. In month 13, we collected stool and urine samples to assay for EED biomarkers. We employed regression analyses to assess the asso

SUBMITTER: Chen D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11747651 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature