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SUBMITTER: Goddard FGB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7547864 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Goddard Frederick G B FGB Ban Radu R Barr Dana Boyd DB Brown Joe J Cannon Jennifer J Colford John M JM Eisenberg Joseph N S JNS Ercumen Ayse A Petach Helen H Freeman Matthew C MC Levy Karen K Luby Stephen P SP Moe Christine C Pickering Amy J AJ Sarnat Jeremy A JA Stewart Jill J Thomas Evan E Taniuchi Mami M Clasen Thomas T
Environmental science & technology 20200909 19
Infections with enteric pathogens impose a heavy disease burden, especially among young children in low-income countries. Recent findings from randomized controlled trials of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions have raised questions about current methods for assessing environmental exposure to enteric pathogens. Approaches for estimating sources and doses of exposure suffer from a number of shortcomings, including reliance on imperfect indicators of fecal contamination instead of actual ...[more]