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Case-control study to determine risk factors for diarrhea among children during a large outbreak in a country with a high prevalence of HIV infection
Arvelo W , Kim A , Creek T , Legwaila K , Puhr N , Johnston S , Masunge J , Davis M , Mintz E , Bowen A . Int J Infect Dis 2010 14 (11) e1002-7 OBJECTIVES: Between January and March of 2006, over 35,000 diarrhea cases and 532 deaths were reported among children aged <5 years in Botswana. We conducted an investigation to characterize the outbreak, identify risk factors for diarrhea, and recommend control strategies. METHODS: We enrolled children <5 years of age presenting to the emergency department between March 2 and March 20, 2006. Cases had ≥3 loose stools per day and no antecedent diarrhea among household members. Controls had had no diarrhea since January 1, 2006. We conducted a multivariate logistic regression analysis controlling for socioeconomic status, age, and maternal HIV status. RESULTS: Forty-nine cases with median age of 12 months (range 0-45 months) and 61 controls with median age of 24 months (range 0-59 months) were enrolled; 33 (30%) were born to HIV-positive mothers. Case-parents were more likely to report storing household drinking water (adjusted odds ratios (AOR) 3.9, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.2-15.7). Lack of hand washing after using the toilet or latrine (AOR 4.2, 95% CI 1.1-20.4) was more likely to be reported by case-parents. Case-children were less likely to be currently breastfeeding (AOR 30.3, 95% CI 2.0-1000.0). Five (10%) case-patients and no control-patients died. Multiple causal pathogens were identified. CONCLUSIONS: During this diarrhea outbreak in a country with a national program to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, ill children were less likely to be breastfed and more likely to have been exposed to environmental factors associated with fecal contamination. These findings underscore the importance of adequate access to safe water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition education among populations using breast milk substitutes. |
Hospitalization and mortality among primarily non-breastfed children during a large outbreak of diarrhea and malnutrition in Botswana, 2006
Creek TL , Kim A , Lu L , Bowen A , Masunge J , Arvelo W , Smit M , Mach O , Legwaila K , Motswere C , Zaks L , Finkbeiner T , Povinelli L , Maruping M , Ngwaru G , Tebele G , Bopp C , Puhr N , Johnston SP , Dasilva AJ , Bern C , Beard RS , Davis MK . J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2009 53 (1) 14-9 BACKGROUND: In 2006, a pediatric diarrhea outbreak occurred in Botswana, coinciding with heavy rains. Surveillance recorded a 3 times increase in cases and a 25 fold increase in deaths between January and March. Botswana has high HIV prevalence among pregnant women (33.4% in 2005), and an estimated 35% of all infants under the age of 6 months are not breastfed. METHODS: We followed all children <5 years old with diarrhea in the country's second largest referral hospital at the peak of the outbreak by chart review, interviewed mothers, and conducted laboratory testing for HIV and enteric pathogens. RESULTS: Of 153 hospitalized children with diarrhea, 97% were <2 years old; 88% of these were not breastfeeding. HIV was diagnosed in 18% of children and 64% of mothers. Cryptosporidium and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli were common; many children had multiple pathogens. Severe acute malnutrition (kwashiorkor or marasmus) developed in 38 (25%) patients, and 33 (22%) died. Kwashiorkor increased risk for death (relative risk 2.0; P = 0.05); only one breastfeeding child died. Many children who died had been undersupplied with formula. CONCLUSIONS: Most of the severe morbidity and mortality in this outbreak occurred in children who were HIV negative and not breastfed. Feeding and nutritional factors were the most important determinants of severe illness and death. Breastfeeding is critical to infant survival in the developing world, and support for breastfeeding among HIV-negative women, and HIV-positive women who cannot formula feed safely, may prevent further high-mortality outbreaks. |
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