| risk factors for fatal childhood diarrhea: a case-control study from two remote panamanian islands. | between september 1979 and march 1980, distinguishing features between fatal and nonfatal cases of diarrhea caused by the same etiologic agents were sought in a case-control investigation of cuna indian children living on the san blas islands located off panama's caribbean coast. the eight fatal cases of diarrhea (four associated with rotavirus, one with giardia lamblia, and three without identifiable pathogens), which occurred in a cohort of 186 children aged less than five years who were follo ... | 1985 | 2990200 |