Relation of childhood diarrheal morbidity with the type of tube well used and associated factors of Shigella sonnei diarrhea in rural Bangladesh site of the Global Enteric Multicenter Study

Diarrheal disease still remains a major public health threat and is often associated with fatal outcome especially in children with shigellosis mostly in developing countries. This study aimed to determine the presence of any associations between drinking shallow tube well (STW) water and childhood shigellosis. A total of 1394 children aged 0-59 months who presented with moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) in Kumudini Women's Medical College and Hospital, Bangladesh, from December 2007 to March 2011 were enrolled into the study. Among the study children, STW users often represented poor families (44% vs. 37%, = 0.010); less often had household electricity (60% vs. 68%, = 0.001) and cemented floor material (12% vs. 21%,