Full title: Derivation and external validation of clinical prediction rules identifying children at risk of linear growth faltering (stunting) presenting for diarrheal care Short title: Clinical prediction rules for growth faltering after diarrhea

Affiliations: 1. Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 2. Division of Epidemiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 3. Department of Global Health, Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents and Children (Global WACh), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA 4. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh 5. Department of Emergency Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA 6. Department of Pediatrics and Environmental and Global Health, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 7. Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA 8. Department of Pediatrics, Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

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