Karen L. Kotloff|William C. Blackwelder|Dilruba Nasrin|James P. Nataro|Tamer H. Farag|Anna Maria van Eijk|Richard A. Adegbola|Pedro L. Alonso|Robert F. Breiman|Abu Syed Golam Faruque|Debasish Saha|Samba O. Sow|Dipika Sur|Anita K. M. Zaidi|Kousick Biswas|Sandra Panchalingam|John D. Clemens|Dani Cohen|Roger I. Glass|Eric D. Mintz|Halvor Sommerfelt|Myron M. Levine
The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) of Diarrheal Disease in Infants and Young Children in Developing Countries: Epidemiologic and Clinical Methods of the Case/Control Study
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background diarrhea leading cause illness death among children aged 5 years developing countries paper describes clinical epidemiological methods used conduct global enteric multicenter study gems 3year prospective agestratified casecontrol study estimate populationbased burden microbiologic etiology adverse clinical consequences acute moderatetosevere diarrhea msd among censused population children aged 059 months seeking care health centers subsaharan africa south asia