Epidemiology of giardiasis and assemblages A and B and effects on diarrhea and growth trajectories during the first 8 years of life: Analysis of a birth cohort in a rural district in tropical Ecuador

• Tannya Sandoval-Ramírez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tannya Sandoval-Ramírez, Victor Seco-Hidalgo, Evelyn Calderon-Espinosa

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Grupo de Investigación en Sanidad Animal y Humana GISAH, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida y la Agricultura, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Quito, Ecuador

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• Victor Seco-Hidalgo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tannya Sandoval-Ramírez, Victor Seco-Hidalgo, Evelyn Calderon-Espinosa

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Institute of Infection and Immunity, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Evelyn Calderon-Espinosa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tannya Sandoval-Ramírez, Victor Seco-Hidalgo, Evelyn Calderon-Espinosa

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Diana Garcia-Ramon,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Andrea Lopez,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Manuel Calvopiña,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation One Health Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador

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• Irene Guadalupe,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Fundación Ecuatoriana Para la Investigación en Salud, Quito, Ecuador

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• Martha Chico,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Fundación Ecuatoriana Para la Investigación en Salud, Quito, Ecuador

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• Rojelio Mejia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Irina Chis Ster,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Infection and Immunity, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Philip J. Cooper

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: pcooper@sgul.ac.uk

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Institute of Infection and Immunity, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom, Fundación Ecuatoriana Para la Investigación en Salud, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6770-6871

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