Water supply, sanitation and diarrhoeal disease in Nicaragua: results from a case-control study.

@article{Gorter1991WaterSS,
  title={Water supply, sanitation and diarrhoeal disease in Nicaragua: results from a case-control study.},
  author={Anna Cornelia Gorter and Peter Sandiford and G. Davey Smith and Johanna Pauw},
  journal={International journal of epidemiology},
  year={1991},
  volume={20 2},
  pages={
          527-33
        }
}
A case-control study of risk factors for child diarrhoeal disease was undertaken in a rural area of Nicaragua. Some 1229 children under the age of five were matched with an equal number of children of the same age presenting with other illnesses unrelated to water and sanitation. The main types of water supply were sampled at monthly intervals and tested for the presence of faecal coliforms in order to characterize their microbiological quality. In spite of marked differences in water quality… 
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