Travelers’ diarrhea: update on the incidence, etiology and risk in military and similar populations – 1990-2005 versus 2005–2015, does a decade make a difference?

Olson, Scott; Hall, Alexis; Riddle, Mark S.; Porter, Chad K.

doi:10.1186/s40794-018-0077-1

Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines

Table 1 Studies included in current systematic review of diarrheal illness among long term travelers since 2006

From: Travelers’ diarrhea: update on the incidence, etiology and risk in military and similar populations – 1990-2005 versus 2005–2015, does a decade make a difference?

Reference	First Author	Year of Pub	Study Years	Study Design	Country	Population	Population Size	Travel Duration	Percent Male	Age
	Middle East
[24]	Armstrong, AW	2010	2007–2008	Clinical Trial	Turkey	US Military	100	0.5	88	36
[28]	Brown, J	2009	2004	Cross-sectional	Multiple	US Military	3933		89	25
[45]	Hillel, O	2005	2003	Cross-sectional	India	Backpackers	114	5	43	26.6
[55]	Letizia, A	2014	2005–2006	Clinical Trial	Turkey	US Military	109	12	86
[58]	Monteville, MR	2006	2004	Other	Iraq; Afghanistan	US Military	194	4.8	92	32
[58]	Monteville, MR	2006	2004	Other	Iraq; Afghanistan	US Military	28,322
[70]	Porter, C	2010	2002	Mixed design	Turkey	US Military	202	4	89	34
[68]	Porter, C	2011	1999–2007	Case-control	Iraq; Afghanistan	US Military	31,866		54.5	28.5
[69]	Porter, C	2011	2008–2009	Case-control	Afghanistan, Iraq	US Military	535	6	56.6	26
[16]	Putnam, S	2006	2003–2004	Cross-sectional	Iraq; Afghanistan	US Military	10,833	11	89.6	26
[9]	Riddle, MS	2008	2006–2007	Cross-sectional	Iraq; Afghanistan; Kuwait	US Military	3374	5.7	84.5	26
[72]	Riddle, MS	2011	2004–2005	Mixed design	Egypt	US Military	211	5.7		31
[75]	Sanders, JW	2007	2003–2004	Clinical Trial	Turkey	US Military	207	8	65	31
[96]	Sanders, JW	2005 (conf)	2004	Cross-sectional	Iraq	US Military	537	3.7	98.1	23
[79]	Sebeny, PJ	2012	2009	Mixed design	Egypt	US Military	1529	0.7	81	34
[89]	Trivedi, KH	2011	2004–2005	Cohort	Egypt; Turkey	US Military	120	3.7	74	34
	SE Asia
[66]	Piyaphanee, W	2011	2009	Cross-sectional	Thailand	Backpackers	404	1	59.7	26
[88]	Tribble, DR	2007	2000–2001	Clinical Trial	Thailand	US Military	156		89	26
[87]	Tribble, DR	2008	2000–2001	Mixed design	Thailand	US Military	182		90	26
[93]	Velasco, J	2015	2014	Other - Surveillance	Philippines	US Military	15	0.5	100	29
	Latin America
[94]	Ajami, N	2014	2004	Descriptive study	Mexico	Students	75	1	46	26
[52]	Kasper, MR	2012	2011	Mixed design	El Salvador	US Military	241	0.5	83.8	27
[71]	Reaves, EJ	2012	2012	Mixed design	Peru	US Military	101
	Latin America and Caribbean
[95]	Chern, A	2016	2011	Mixed design	Multiple	US Military / Civilian	3156	5	64.6	31
	Africa
[39]	Frickmann, H	2015	2013–2014	Surveillance	Mali	non-US Military	51	8.5
[56]	Marimoutou, C	2011	2007–2008	Cohort	Chad	non-US Military	278	5
[67]	Pommier de Santi, V	2011	2007–2008	Mixed design	Chad	non-US Military	240	5	91.7	27
	Multiple
[30]	Chen, L	2009	1996–2008	Descriptive study		Peace Corps; Expatriate	4039	12	57.2
[83]	Stermer, E	2006	2004	Cross-sectional		Non-military Travelers	405	1	53.3	30.8
[90]	Tuteja AK	2008		Cohort		Missionaries (mainly)	83	16	82	21

This table lists all studies included in the current systematic review since the last review in 2006. Thirty studies were included for analysis, bringing the total number of studies in this systematic review to 82. The author, year of publication, study years, type of study design, countries included, type of travel population evaluate, population size, median travel duration, percent male, and median age are included for each included study, where available. The studies are listed by region of travel

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