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.