Diarrhoea and pneumonia are the leading infectious causes of childhood morbidity and
mortality. We comprehensively reviewed the epidemiology of childhood diarrhoea and …

Over the past decade, the genus Aeromonas has undergone a number of significant
changes of practical importance to clinical microbiologists and scientists alike. In parallel …

One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of
these live in the Global South–mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate …

Several enteric protozoa cause severe morbidity and mortality in both humans and animals
worldwide. In developed settings, enteric protozoa are often ignored as a cause of diarrheal …

We assessed the relationship of fecal environmental contamination and environmental
enteropathy. We compared markers of environmental enteropathy, parasite burden, and …

Background Our current understanding of the composition and stability of the human distal
gut microbiota is based largely on studies of infants and adults living in developed countries …

Enteric infections, with or without overt diarrhea, have profound effects on intestinal
absorption, nutrition, and childhood development as well as on global mortality. Oral …

Parasitic infections, caused by intestinal helminths and protozoan parasites, are among the
most prevalent infections in humans in developing countries. In developed countries …

This paper reviews the literature on health in the informal settlements (and “slums”) that now
house a substantial proportion of the urban population in Africa, Asia and Latin America …

Cryptosporidium spp. are coccidians, oocysts‐forming apicomplexan protozoa, which
complete their life cycle both in humans and animals, through zoonotic and anthroponotic …