Muendo, Catherine
Laving, Ahmed
Kumar, Rashmi
Osano, Boniface
Egondi, Thaddaeus
Njuguna, Pamela
Article History
Received: 3 May 2018
Accepted: 26 September 2018
First Online: 11 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was granted by the Kenyatta National Hospital/University of Nairobi Ethical and Research Committee under approved study number P235/03/2016 before conducting the study. Informed consent was granted by the primary caretaker for each child recruited.The study was conducted among children aged 3 to 24 months presenting with acute diarrhoea, which was defined as passage of three or more loose stools per day lasting less than 14 days. Sequential sampling of patients who met the inclusion criteria was done in the paediatric wards and the paediatric emergency unit, then informed written consent was obtained from the caretaker.
: This consent is provided by KNH/UON Ethics and Research Committee under ethics approval number (P235/03/2016).
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