TY - JOUR
T1 - Disease surveillance methods used in the 8-site MAL-ED cohort study
AU - MAL-ED Network Investigators
AU - Richard, Stephanie A.
AU - Barrett, Leah J.
AU - Guerrant, Richard L.
AU - Checkley, William
AU - Miller, Mark A.
AU - de Burga, Rosa Rios
AU - Chavez, Cesar Banda
AU - Flores, Julian Torres
AU - Olotegui, Maribel Paredes
AU - Pinedo, Silvia Rengifo
AU - Salas, Mery Siguas
AU - Trigoso, Dixner Rengifo
AU - Vasquez, Angel Orbe
AU - Ahmed, Imran
AU - Alam, Didar
AU - Ali, Asad
AU - Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.
AU - Qureshi, Shahida
AU - Rasheed, Muneera
AU - Soofi, Sajid
AU - Turab, Ali
AU - Zaidi, Anita K.M.
AU - Bodhidatta, Ladaporn
AU - Mason, Carl J.
AU - Babji, Sudhir
AU - Bose, Anuradha
AU - George, Ajila T.
AU - Hariraju, Dinesh
AU - Jennifer, M. Steffi
AU - John, Sushil
AU - Kaki, Shiny
AU - Kang, Gagandeep
AU - Karunakaran, Priyadarshani
AU - Koshy, Beena
AU - Lazarus, Robin P.
AU - Muliyil, Jayaprakash
AU - Raghava, Mohan Venkata
AU - Raju, Sophy
AU - Ramachandran, Anup
AU - Ramadas, Rakhi
AU - Ramanujam, Karthikeyan
AU - Bose, Anuradha
AU - Roshan, Reeba
AU - Sharma, Srujan L.
AU - Shanmuga Sundaram, E.
AU - Thomas, Rahul J.
AU - Pan, William K.
AU - Ambikapathi, Ramya
AU - Murray-Kolb, Laura E.
AU - Ross, A. Catharine
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - Describing the early life associations between infectious disease episodes and growth, cognitive development, and vaccine response in the first 2 years of life is one of the primary goals of the Etiology, Risk Factors and Interactions of Enteric Infections and Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED) cohort study. To collect high-resolution data during a critical early period of development, field staff visit each study participant at their house twice weekly from birth to 2 years of age to collect daily reported illness and treatment data from caregivers. Detailed infectious disease histories will not only allow us to relate the overall burden of infectious disease with the primary outcomes of the study, but will also allow us to describe the ages at which infectious diseases have the greatest effect on child health. In addition, twice-weekly visits allow for sample collection when diarrhea episodes are identified. This article describes the methods used to collect illness and treatment history data and discusses the a priori definitions of diarrhea and acute lower respiratory illness episodes.
AB - Describing the early life associations between infectious disease episodes and growth, cognitive development, and vaccine response in the first 2 years of life is one of the primary goals of the Etiology, Risk Factors and Interactions of Enteric Infections and Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED) cohort study. To collect high-resolution data during a critical early period of development, field staff visit each study participant at their house twice weekly from birth to 2 years of age to collect daily reported illness and treatment data from caregivers. Detailed infectious disease histories will not only allow us to relate the overall burden of infectious disease with the primary outcomes of the study, but will also allow us to describe the ages at which infectious diseases have the greatest effect on child health. In addition, twice-weekly visits allow for sample collection when diarrhea episodes are identified. This article describes the methods used to collect illness and treatment history data and discusses the a priori definitions of diarrhea and acute lower respiratory illness episodes.
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U2 - 10.1093/cid/ciu435
DO - 10.1093/cid/ciu435
M3 - Article
C2 - 25305290
AN - SCOPUS:84913604118
SN - 1058-4838
VL - 59
SP - S220-S224
JO - Clinical Infectious Diseases
JF - Clinical Infectious Diseases
ER -