Giardia lamblia risk factors and burden in children with acute gastroenteritis in a Nicaraguan birth cohort

• Lester Gutiérrez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET). Facultad de Microbiología. Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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• Nadja A. Vielot ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nadjavielot@unc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9004-0609

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• Roberto Herrera,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET). Facultad de Microbiología. Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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• Yaoska Reyes,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Christian Toval-Ruíz,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliation Universidad Tecnológica La Salle, León, Nicaragua

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• Patricia Blandón,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Current address: Faculty of Medicine, Medical Technology, Universidad Nacional Comandante Padre Gaspar García Laviana, León, Nicaragua

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, National Autonomous University of Nicaragua-León, León, Nicaragua

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• Rebecca J. Rubinstein,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Javier Mora,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET). Facultad de Microbiología. Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Laboratory of Helminthology, Faculty of Microbiology, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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• Luther A. Bartelt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease and the Departments of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Filemón Bucardo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Laboratory of Helminthology, Faculty of Microbiology, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

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• Sylvia Becker-Dreps,

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

  Affiliations Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Samuel Vilchez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, National Autonomous University of Nicaragua-León, León, Nicaragua

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