Key result
A clean water intervention providing a new hand-dug well did not significantly reduce the diversity of mammalian enteric viruses shed by children in rural Ethiopia.
Why the study?
Does a new hand-dug water well reduce the number of mammalian enteric viruses shed in Ethiopian children?
RCT (n=269)
Cluster-randomized
Yes
Does a new hand-dug water well reduce the number of mammalian enteric viruses shed in Ethiopian children?
Absolute Event Rate: 5.5% vs 3%
p-value: p=0.2893
A clean water intervention consisting of new hand-dug wells did not significantly reduce the diversity of mammalian enteric viruses shed by children in rural Ethiopia.
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No reduction in enteric virus shedding with new wells; leaves open whether source improvements alone alter pediatric viromes in this setting.
Altan et al. (2018) conducted an RCT in Enteric viral shedding (n=269). Clean water intervention (new hand-dug water well) vs. No intervention was evaluated on Alpha diversity (observed richness) of the human enteric virome (p=0.2893). A clean water intervention providing a new hand-dug well did not significantly reduce the diversity of mammalian enteric viruses shed by children in rural Ethiopia.
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