Gambia - Basse Global Enteric Multicenter Study 2011-2013

General Info

Original or alternative title

Global Enteric Multi-Center Study / GEMS-1A

Provider

Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland

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Geography

Gambia (GMB)

Upper River

Coverage type

Subnational

Time period covered

November, 2011 - January, 2013

Data type

Survey: Exam - Health facility - Household - Individual - Interview

Summary

The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) was a multi-country case-control study of diarrheal diseases in children under five years of age. GEMS-1A was a follow-up to the original GEMS-1 study, and took place in all of the original seven sites in Africa and Asia with enrollment from November 2011 through November 2012. Whereas GEMS-1 studied children under five years of age diagnosed with mid-to-severe diarrhea (MSD), GEMS-1A consisted of two parallel case-control studies: one study enrolled children under five years of age with MSD, and a separate study enrolled children over the age of five with less-severe diarrhea (LSD). In this way, GEMS-1A could compare cases of MSD with cases of LSD.

In the Gambia, while enrollment ended in November 2012, follow-up visits were conducted through January 2013.

Keywords

Adenovirus, Aeromonas, Amoebiasis, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Assets, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Campylobacter enteritis, Child anthropometry, Child mortality, Cholera, Clostridium difficile, Cooking fuels, Cough, Cryptosporidiosis, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, E. coli, Edema, Education, Electricity, Family size, Fatigue, Fever, Health care access, Health care use, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, Livestock, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Mass media, Medicines, Meningitis, Mortality, Norovirus, Oral rehydration therapy, Pain, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Place of death, Prescriptions, Rotavirus, Salmonella infections, Sanitation, Seizures, Shigellosis, Telephones, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, Vomiting, Water supply, Zinc

Citation

Contributors

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Perry Point Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

International Vaccine Institute

Center for Vaccine Development (Chile)

University of Chile

School of Medicine, University of Virginia

Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Göteborg University

Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland

Medical Research Council (The Gambia)

Funders

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)

Publisher

Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland

Suggested citation

Center for Vaccine Development (Chile), Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Göteborg University, International Vaccine Institute, Medical Research Council (The Gambia), Perry Point Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, University of Chile. Gambia - Basse Global Enteric Multicenter Study 2011-2013. Baltimore, MD, United States of America: Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland.