Sozinho Acácio

TL;DR: Adherence to recommended management of severe pneumonia was high in a hospital outpatient department, but suboptimal in health centers, and diagnosis of malaria was the strongest risk factor for incorrect management.

TL;DR: B baseline data is generated for future monitoring of any changes in rotavirus strains in response to vaccine pressure and the VP7 and VP8* encoding genes showed, for the majority of the Mozambican strains, that they clustered with other African strains based on genotype.

TL;DR: The highest prevalence of rotavirus infection was observed in children between 6 and 11 months old, and it was also observed that 162 of the children were underweight (weight-for-age z-score < -2), of which 61 were infected by rotvirus.

TL;DR: The first investigation of E. bieneusi genotypes in Mozambique is reported with the identification of three previously reported genotype in humans as well as a novel genotype (HhMzEb1) that belonged to the Group 1 that includes genotypes with low host specificity and the potential for zoonotic and cross-species transmission.

TL;DR: Water availability, giving stored water to child, washing hands before preparing baby’s food, and mother as caretaker were the protective factors against acquiring diarrhea caused by Shigella.