Microbiological contamination of young children’s hands in rural Bangladesh: Associations with child age and observed hand cleanliness as proxy

• Sarker Masud Parvez ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: parvez@icddrb.org

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2004-5065

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• Rashidul Azad,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2003-2726

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• Amy J. Pickering,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States of America

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• Laura H. Kwong,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

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• Benjamin F. Arnold,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

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• Musarrat Jabeen Rahman,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Md. Zahidur Rahman,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Mahfuja Alam,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Debashis Sen,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Sharmin Islam,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Mahbubur Rahman,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• John M. Colford Jr.,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

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• Stephen P. Luby,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

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• Leanne Unicomb,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Ayse Ercumen

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

  Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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