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Table 3 Estimates of the global burden due to diarrhea etiologies in children under five in 2010/2011 [6,10]

From: Deconstructing the differences: a comparison of GBD 2010 and CHERG’s approach to estimating the mortality burden of diarrhea, pneumonia, and their etiologies

 

CHERG (2011)

GBD 2010

Diarrhea etiology

Deaths (×1,000)

% U5 diarrhea mortality

Deaths (×1,000)

% U5 diarrhea mortality

Total

712*

100%

666*

100%

Cholera**

9

1.3%

42.5

6.4%

Other salmonella infections

  

29

4.4%

Shigellosis

28

3.9%

43.6

6.5%

Enteropathogenic E. coli infection

79

11.1%

72.8

10.9%

Enterotoxigenic E. coli infection

42

6.0%

38.7

5.8%

Campylobacter enteritis

22

3.2%

63.6

9.5%

Amoebiasis

  

9.2

1.4%

Cryptosporidiosis

14

2.0%

83

12.5%

Rotaviral enteritis

197

27.8%

173

26.0%

Other diarrheal diseases

  

109

16.4%

Calicivirus

71

9.9%

  

Astrovirus

15

2.1%

  

Adenovirus

22

3.1%

  

All Salmonella

18

2.5%

  

Giardia lamblia

16

2.3%

  

Entamoeba histolytica

1

0.2%

  

Unknown etiology

176

24.5%

  
  1. *CHERG death estimates sum up to 710,000 and those of GBD2010 to 664,000 due to rounding adjustments of individual figures.
  2. **CHERG cholera estimate only represents Vibrio Cholera O1.