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Pakistan - Karachi Global Enteric Multicenter Study 2011-2013

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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 
Pakistan (PAK)
Sindh
Coverage type 
Subnational
Time period covered 
11/2011 - 01/2013
Series or system 
Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS)
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 Pakistan, 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, Children, 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
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 5, 2021