Urban Sanitation and Child Exposure to Diarrheal Pathogens in Bangladesh

Better understanding of how household and community sanitation affects child exposure to fecal contamination and diarrheal pathogens could improve the design of sanitation interventions in low-income urban communities. This project includes a case-control study to assess observable household and community sanitation characteristics as risk factors for child clinical diarrhea cases. It also includes an in-depth microbial sampling component to measure environmental fecal contamination among households with varying sanitation service levels.