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Early life child micronutrient status, maternal reasoning, and a nurturing hous...
McCormick, Benjamin J. J; Richard, Stephanie A.; Caulfield, Laura E.; Pendergast, Laura L.; Seidman, Jessica C.; Koshy, Beena; Roshan, ReebaBackground Child cognitive development is influenced by early-life insults and protective factors. To what extent these factors have a long-term legacy on child development and hence fulfillment of cognitive potential is unknown. Objective The aim of this study was to examine the relation between early-life factors (birth to 2 y) and cognitive development at 5 y. Methods Observational follow-up visits were made...
Epidemiology of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli infections and associated ou...
Rogawski, Elizabeth T.; Guerrant, Richard L.; Havt, Alexandre; Lima, Ila F. N.; Medeiros, Pedro H. Q. S.; Seidman, Jessica C.; McCormick, Benjamin J. J.Background Enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC) have been associated with mildly inflammatory diarrhea in outbreaks and in travelers and have been increasingly recognized as enteric pathogens in young children with and without overt diarrhea. We examined the risk factors for EAEC infections and their associations with environmental enteropathy biomarkers and growth outcomes over the first two years of life in eight...
Use of antibiotics in children younger than two years in eight countries : a pr...
Rogawski, Elizabeth T.; Platts-Mills, James A.; Seidman, Jessica C.; John, Sushil; Mahfuz, Mustafa; Ulak, Manjeswori; Shrestha, Sanjaya K.Objective To describe the frequency and factors associated with antibiotic use in early childhood, and estimate the proportion of diarrhoea and respiratory illnesses episodes treated with antibiotics. Methods Between 2009 and 2014, we followed 2134 children from eight sites in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, South Africa and the United Republic of Tanzania, enrolled in the MAL-ED birth cohort ...