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Characteristics And Etiology Of Moderate-To-Severe Diarrhea Of Acute, Prolonged Acute, And Persistent Duration Among Children Less Than 5 Years Old In Rural Western Kenya, 2008-2010, Katharine A. Schilling

Public Health Theses

Worldwide, diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under 5 years old. Data on diarrhea of extended duration is limited. We described the characteristics associated with acute, prolonged acute and persistent diarrhea in Kenyan children less than 5 years of age participating in the Global Enterics Multicenter Study. Children presenting at a clinic were enrolled if they met the case definition for acute moderate-to-severe diarrhea defined as >3 loose stools in the last 24 hrs, within 7 days of illness onset, with >1 of the following: sunken eyes, skin tenting, dysentery, IV rehydration, or hospitalization. To …

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Levels Of Drinking Water Quality And The Occurrence Of Self-Reported Diarrheal Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study In The Dominican Republic, 2005-2006., Shannon M. Kraft

Public Health Theses

Background: 884 million people do not have access to clean water, which is a potential contributor to diarrhea (JMP, 2010). The purpose of this study was to examine the potential associations between the occurrence of diarrhea and the levels of turbidity, total coliforms, and Escherichia coli (E. coli), in 185 households in Bonao, Dominican Republic in 2005-2006.

Methods: A biweekly water quality dataset and a weekly diarrhea occurrence dataset were merged using three different methods. T-tests and odds ratios were calculated for all three different datasets. Multivariate logistic regression was also conducted.

Results: There were 430 cases …