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Stephen P. Luby
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 645
Citations - 28939
Stephen P. Luby is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Sanitation. The author has an hindex of 78, co-authored 606 publications receiving 24371 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen P. Luby include International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The global burden of typhoid fever.
TL;DR: New data and improved understanding of typhoid fever epidemiology enabled us to refine the global typhoid burden estimate, which remains considerable.
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Effect of handwashing on child health: a randomised controlled trial
Stephen P. Luby,Mubina Agboatwalla,Daniel R. Feikin,John A. Painter,Ward Billhimer,Arshad Altaf,Robert M. Hoekstra +6 more
TL;DR: Children younger than 5 years in households that received plain soap and handwashing promotion had a 50% lower incidence of pneumonia than controls, which prevents the largest number of childhood deaths globally-namely, diarrhoea and acute lower respiratory infections.
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Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
Stephen P. Luby,Mahbubur Rahman,Benjamin F. Arnold,Leanne Unicomb,Sania Ashraf,Peter J. Winch,Christine P. Stewart,Farzana Begum,Faruqe Hussain,Jade Benjamin-Chung,Elli Leontsini,Abu Mohd Naser,Sarker Masud Parvez,Alan Hubbard,Audrie Lin,Fosiul A. Nizame,Kaniz Jannat,Ayse Ercumen,Pavani K. Ram,Kishor K. Das,Jaynal Abedin,Thomas Clasen,Kathryn G. Dewey,Lia C. H. Fernald,Clair Null,Tahmeed Ahmed,John M. Colford +26 more
TL;DR: The WASH Benefits Bangladesh cluster-randomised trial as mentioned in this paper enrolled pregnant women from villages in rural Bangladesh and evaluated outcomes at 1-year and 2-years' follow-up to assess whether water quality, sanitation, and handwashing interventions alone or combined with nutrition interventions reduced diarrhoea or growth faltering.
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Foodborne transmission of Nipah virus, Bangladesh.
Stephen P. Luby,Mahmudur Rahman,M. Jahangir Hossain,Lauren S. Blum,M. Mushtaq Husain,Emily S. Gurley,Rasheda Khan,Be-Nazir Ahmed,Shafiqur Rahman,Nazmun Nahar,Eben Kenah,James A. Comer,Thomas G. Ksiazek +12 more
TL;DR: The Nipah virus was likely transmitted from fruit bats to humans by drinking fresh date palm sap, according to the TOC summary line, which indicates that drinking freshdate palm sap may be a source of infection for humans.
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Person-to-Person Transmission of Nipah Virus in a Bangladeshi Community
Emily S. Gurley,Joel M. Montgomery,M. Jahangir Hossain,Michael Bell,Abul Kalam al Azad,M. R. Islam,Mohammed Abdur Rahim Molla,Darin S. Carroll,Thomas G. Ksiazek,Paul A. Rota,Luis Lowe,James A. Comer,Pierre E. Rollin,Markus Czub,Markus Czub,Allen Grolla,Heinz Feldmann,Heinz Feldmann,Stephen P. Luby,Stephen P. Luby,Jennifer L. Woodward,Robert F. Breiman,Robert F. Breiman +22 more
TL;DR: Transmission of this virus highlights the need for infection control strategies for resource-poor settings and calls for increased awareness of infection control measures in these settings.