| Literature DB >> 25305291 |
Eric Houpt1, Jean Gratz1, Margaret Kosek2, Anita K M Zaidi3, Shahida Qureshi3, Gagandeep Kang4, Sudhir Babji4, Carl Mason5, Ladaporn Bodhidatta5, Amidou Samie6, Pascal Bessong6, Leah Barrett1, Aldo Lima7, Alexandre Havt7, Rashidul Haque8, Dinesh Mondal8, Mami Taniuchi1, Suzanne Stroup1, Monica McGrath9, Dennis Lang10.
Abstract
A central hypothesis of The Etiology, Risk Factors and Interactions of Enteric Infections and Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED) study is that enteropathogens contribute to growth faltering. To examine this question, the MAL-ED network of investigators set out to achieve 3 goals: (1) develop harmonized protocols to test for a diverse range of enteropathogens, (2) provide quality-assured and comparable results from 8 global sites, and (3) achieve maximum laboratory throughput and minimum cost. This paper describes the rationale for the microbiologic assays chosen and methodologies used to accomplish the 3 goals.Entities:
Keywords: ELISA; PCR; culture; enteropathogen; microscopy
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25305291 PMCID: PMC4204609 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu413
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Infect Dis ISSN: 1058-4838 Impact factor: 9.079