Symptomatic and asymptomatic enteric protozoan parasitic infection and their association with subsequent growth parameters in under five children in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

• Rina Das ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rina.das@emory.edu, rina.das@icddrb.org (RD); matthew.freeman@emory.edu (MCF)

  Affiliations Nutrition Research Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7499-7278

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• Parag Palit,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nutrition Research Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

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• Md. Ahshanul Haque,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nutrition Research Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Myron M. Levine,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Karen L. Kotloff,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Dilruba Nasrin,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• M. Jahangir Hossain,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia

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• Dipika Sur,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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• Tahmeed Ahmed,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nutrition Research Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Robert F. Breiman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Robert F. Breiman, Matthew C. Freeman, A. S. G. Faruque

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Matthew C. Freeman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Robert F. Breiman, Matthew C. Freeman, A. S. G. Faruque

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rina.das@emory.edu, rina.das@icddrb.org (RD); matthew.freeman@emory.edu (MCF)

  Affiliation Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• A. S. G. Faruque

  Contributed equally to this work with: Robert F. Breiman, Matthew C. Freeman, A. S. G. Faruque

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nutrition Research Division, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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