Effect of drinking water treatment on bacterial strain sharing among Kenyan children

饮用水处理对肯尼亚儿童细菌菌株共享的影响

基本信息

批准号：
10509987
负责人：
Ashlee Miriam Earl
金额：
$ 26.48万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-06-01 至 2024-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10509987
关键词：
Advocate Animals Antibiotics Blood Circulation Characteristics Child Child Health Communities DNA sequencing Data Diarrhea Environmental Exposure Exposure to Foundations Future Health Household Infrastructure Intervention Kenya Knowledge Low income Ownership Pathogenicity Pathway interactions Pattern Population Density Prevalence Public Health Randomized Randomized Controlled Trials Reporting Research Research Personnel Resource-limited setting Rural Rural Community Sampling Sanitation School-Age Population Siblings Site Taxonomy Urban Community Water burden of illness chlorination community burden community transmission computational suite computerized tools design diarrheal disease drinking drinking water enteric infection enteric pathogen environmental intervention gut microbiota implementation strategy innovation insight intervention delivery metagenomic sequencing novel pathogenic bacteria programs public health intervention rural residence rural setting socioeconomics stool sample study population therapy design tool transmission process treatment effect urban setting water treatment

项目摘要

SUMMARY In communities with high rates of diarrhea and enteric infections, the spatial scale of bacterial strain sharing in young children has not been well studied. Yet, understanding these transmission patterns is critical knowledge for selecting and implementing interventions to protect child health in resource-constrained environments. Water treatment interventions are often targeted at the household level, yet recent large-scale trials of household-level interventions have not consistently shown reductions in child diarrhea prevalence. One explanation is that household-level drinking water interventions fail to disrupt community transmission pathways, resulting in continued child exposure to bacterial pathogens. Here, we will investigate strain sharing between child pairs at multiple spatial scales, including within households and between households across urban and rural settings. We will leverage previously collected (by our team) fecal samples from 240 sets of siblings (n=480 children), including siblings from 120 urban households and 120 rural households. In both urban and rural study sites, we will have the unique opportunity to sample from equal numbers of households from villages with and without access to community-wide drinking water chlorination. We will 1) compare the scale of bacterial strain sharing in rural versus urban communities in Kenya; and 2) evaluate the effect of access to community-wide chlorination on bacterial strain sharing in both urban and rural communities. Our study population will also allow us to investigate if bacterial strain sharing patterns and community-wide water treatment effects differ for younger versus older school-aged children. We will use short-read metagenomic sequencing and a new innovative suite of computational bacterial strain tracking tools developed by our team to achieve these aims. Our findings will inform the scope and scale at which future drinking water and other environmental interventions should be implemented, and if the delivery of interventions designed to protect young children from exposure to bacterial pathogens should be different for rural versus urban communities.

概括在腹泻和肠道感染高发的社区中，细菌菌株共享的空间规模幼儿尚未得到充分研究。然而，了解这些传播模式是至关重要的知识选择和实施干预措施以保护资源有限环境中的儿童健康。水处理干预措施通常针对家庭层面，但最近的大规模试验家庭一级的干预措施并未始终表明儿童腹泻患病率有所下降。一解释是家庭层面的饮用水干预措施未能阻止社区传播途径，导致儿童持续接触细菌病原体。在这里，我们将研究菌株共享多个空间尺度的儿童对之间，包括家庭内部和家庭之间城市和乡村环境。我们将利用之前（由我们的团队）从 240 组粪便中收集的粪便样本兄弟姐妹（n=480 名儿童），其中城市家庭的兄弟姐妹 120 户，农村家庭的兄弟姐妹 120 户。在两者中城市和农村研究地点，我们将有独特的机会从同等数量的家庭中进行抽样来自有或没有获得全社区饮用水氯化的村庄。我们将 1) 比较肯尼亚农村与城市社区细菌菌株共享的规模； 2）评估效果在城市和农村社区共享细菌菌株，获得全社区氯化。我们的研究人群还将使我们能够调查细菌菌株共享模式和社区范围内的水是否对于年龄较小的学龄儿童和年龄较大的学龄儿童来说，治疗效果有所不同。我们将使用短读宏基因组测序和我们团队开发的一套新的创新计算细菌菌株追踪工具来实现这些目标。我们的研究结果将告知未来饮用水和其他应实施环境干预措施，并且如果实施旨在保护环境的干预措施农村和城市社区的幼儿接触细菌病原体的情况应该有所不同。