Household socio-economic position and individual infectious disease risk in rural Kenya.

ABSTRACT: The importance of household socio-economic position (SEP) in shaping individual infectious disease risk is increasingly recognised, particularly in low income settings. However, few studies have measured the extent to which this association is consistent for the range of pathogens that are typically endemic among the rural poor in the tropics. This cross-sectional study assessed the relationship between SEP and human infection within a single community in western Kenya using a set of pathogens with diverse transmission routes. The relationships between household SEP and individual infection with Plasmodium falciparum, hookworm (Ancylostoma duodenale and/or Necator americanus), Entamoeba histolytica/dispar, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and HIV, and co-infections between hookworm, P. falcipar

SUBMITTER: de Glanville WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6393457 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature