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Etiology of Diarrheal Disease in an Outpatient Health Clinic in Quito

Principal Investigator

Joseph Eisenberg 

Co-Principal Investigator

Sofia Merajver 

Co-Investigators

William Cevallos Trujillo, Gabriel Trueba 

Funding Sources

UM Center for Global Health

Status

Current

Keywords

• diarrheal disease  •
• Ecuador  •
• case-control  •
• clinic

About this Project

In this pilot study, 100 cases of diarrhea and 100 controls, without diarrhea, will be collected in an outpatient clinic and analyzed for the following pathogens: pathogenic E. coli, Shigella, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Rotavirus, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, and Entamoeba histolytica. These data will be used to both look at which of these pathogens are causing diarrhea and what proportion of the diarrhea is being caused by this set of pathogens.