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The study, published in the Lancet and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, also revealed that pathogens – bacteria, viruses, parasites and other disease-causing microorganisms – are responsible for nearly 90 percent of childhood diarrhea cases, almost double what researchers thought just three years ago.

The World Health Organization estimates that diarrhea, which causes malnutrition and dehydration, kills about 760,000 children under the age of 5 every year, second only to pneumonia. “Infection is spread through contaminated food or drinking-water, or from person-to-person as a result of poor hygiene,” the WHO reported.

Most of cases of childhood diarrhea, Houpt said, are in Africa and south Asia. The researchers accordingly analyzed over 10,000 samples from seven countries across those regions: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Gambia, Kenya, Mali and Mozambique.

The study is actually a re-examination of the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) from 2013, which estimated only 51.5 percent of childhood diarrhea cases were attributable to pathogens and pinpointed four major pathogens among more than 40 using conventional diagnostic methods.

Revisiting the GEMS study with new molecular diagnostic techniques confirmed the four previously identified pathogens and added two others, which together accounted for 77.8 percent of diarrhea cases. Shigella and rotavirus led the pack, with adenovirus, ETEC (a type of E. coli), cryptosporidium and campylobacter following.

http://www.humanosphere.org/science/2016/09/6-pathogens-guilty-78-percent-childhood-diarrhea-cases-new-study-reveals/