Molecular characterization of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli isolates from children with diarrhea: A cross-sectional study in four provinces of Mozambique: Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in Mozambique

Diarrheal disease is one of the major causes of childhood mortality in resource-limited countries (Vos et al., 2017). In 2019, diarrhea caused 499,950 deaths globally among children under 5 years old (Paulson et al., 2021); the highest number of deaths was in Africa (Abba et al., 2009; Vos et al., 2017...