CBCB scientists Mihai Pop, Joseph Paulson, Irina Astrovskaya, and Héctor Corrada Bravo publish a study on diarrhea in low income countries

CBCB scientists Mihai Pop, Joseph Paulson, Irina Astrovskaya, and Héctor Corrada Bravo, together with colleagues from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, publish in the journal Genome Biology the results of a large-scale study on diarrheal disease in low-income studies. The study, led by Mihai Pop from the CBCB and Colin Stine from UMSOM, has characterized the gut microbiota in 992 children with diarrhea and diarrhea-free controls from four low-income countries (The Gambia, Mali, Kenya, and Bangladesh). This study identifies new organisms that may be implicated in diarrheal disease as well as the existence of several bacterial groups that may protect children from diarrhea. Further information is available in the UM Press release and on the project's website.