Table 3. Study characteristics of studies meeting inclusion criteria but excluded from final analysis because the study population (i.e. community-based, inpatient, or outpatient) was not given or results were not stratified by group.

Author (ref)	Country	Date of data collection	Study duration (months)	Age in yrs (mean ± range)	Sample size	Pathogens included in study
Echevarria [55]	Thailand	1982–83	12	≥5	177	ETEC, Shigella spp., Aeromonas spp., V. cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus
Chatterjee [41]	India	1982–83	24	5–14	46	EIEC, EPEC, Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Campylobacter spp., Rotavirus, Giardia, E. histolytica, V. cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus, P. shigelloides
Cabrita [39]	Portugal	1984–89	72	≥5	1012	Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Campylobacter spp.
Rahman [48]	Bangladesh	1985	12	≥6	577	Cryptosporidium spp.
Bingnan [38]	Bangladesh	1987–89	24	≥5	2370	Rotavirus
Zvizdic [53]	Bosnia	1988–1991	48	5–7	70	Rotavirus
Cassel-Beraud [40]	Madagascar	1988–89	12	6–14	113	ETEC, Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Campylobacter spp., Rotavirus, Giardia, E. histolytica
Zaman [20]	Saudi Arabia	1989–90	12	≥5	901	Campylobacter spp.
Libanorne [47]	Italy	1984–87	24	16–96	1681	Giardia
Katsumata [46]	Indonesia	1992–93	12	≥5	211	Cryptosporidium spp.
Samonis [49]	Greece	1992–94	36	≥15	1420	EPEC, Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Campylobacter spp., Aeromonas spp.
Simadibrata [50]	Indonesia	1995–2000	72	(42±14)	207	Shigella spp.,Giardia, E. histolytica
Akinyemi [34]	Nigeria	1995–96	12	≥6	642	EHEC, EIEC, ETEC, EPEC, Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Aeromonas spp.
Faruque [42]	Bangladesh	1996–2001	72	≥5	5779	ETEC, EPEC, Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Campylobacter spp., Rotavirus, E histolytica, V. cholerae
Bern [37]	Guatemala	1997–98	12	≥5	514	Cryptosporidium spp.
Gambhir [44]	India	1997–2000	36	≥15	145	Giardia, Cryptosporidium spp., E. histolytica
Battikhi [36]	Jordan	1997–2001	48	≥5	560	EPEC, Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Campylobacter spp., Rotavirus
von Seidlein [52]	Multi-site Asia1	2002	12	>5	8253	Shigella spp.
Abreu-Acosta [33]	Spain	2002–2004	24	≥13	17	Cryptosporidium spp.
Hamedi [45]	Iran	2003	12	5–7	31	Cryptosporidium spp.
Uchida [51]	Nepal	2003–04	12	≥5	645	Rotavirus
Amarilla [35]	Paraguay	2004–05	24	18–95	801	Rotavirus
Feizabadi [43]	Iran	2004–05	12	5–14	79	Campylobacter spp.

¹China, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Pakistan, Bangladesh.