Funding
This work was supported by the Alberta Provincial Pediatric EnTeric Infection TEam (APPETITE), which is funded by a grant from the Alberta Innovates-Health Solutions Team Collaborative Innovation Opportunity. APPETITE is also supported by the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute (Calgary, Alberta) and the Women and Children’s Partnership Award Health Research Institute (Edmonton, Alberta). Dr. Freedman is supported by the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation Professorship in Child Health and Wellness. The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Associate Program (PEMRAP) is supported by a grant from the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation. In-kind support to enable the conduct of this study is provided by Calgary Laboratory Services and Alberta Public Health Laboratory (Alberta Precision Laboratories), Luminex Corporation, as well as Copan Italia. The authors have no competing interest to declare.