Etiologies, Risk Factors and Impact of Severe Diarrhea in the Under-Fives in Moramanga and Antananarivo, Madagascar.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diarrheal disease remains a leading cause of death in children in low-income countries. We investigated the etiology, risk factors and effects on nutritional status of severe diarrhea in children from two districts in Madagascar.

Methods

We performed a matched case-control study in 2011 to 2014, on children under the age of five years from Moramanga and Antananarivo. The cases were children hospitalized for severe diarrhea and the controls were children without diarrhea selected at random from the community. Stool samples were collected from both groups. Anthropometric measurements were made during follow-up visits about one and two months after enrolment.

Results

We enrolled 199 cases and 199 controls. Rotavirus infection was the most frequently detected c

SUBMITTER: Randremanana RV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4943590 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature