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SUBMITTER: Jarquin C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4824239 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jarquin Claudia C Arnold Benjamin F BF Muñoz Fredy F Lopez Beatriz B Cuéllar Victoria M VM Thornton Andrew A Patel Jaymin J Reyes Lisette L Roy Sharon L SL Bryan Joe P JP McCracken John P JP Colford John M JM
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20160208 4
Poor sanitation could pose greater risk for enteric pathogen transmission at higher human population densities because of greater potential for pathogens to infect new hosts through environmentally mediated and person-to-person transmission. We hypothesized that incidence and prevalence of diarrhea, enteric protozoans, and soil-transmitted helminth infections would be higher in high-population-density areas compared with low-population-density areas, and that poor sanitation would pose greater r ...[more]