Temporal relationship between the occurrence of fresh noma and the timing of linear growth retardation in Nigerian children

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-73

  Enwonwu, Cyril O ^a   Phillips, Reshma S ^a,b   Ferrell, Christine D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Growth retardation; Infections; Malnutrition; Noma; Oro facial gangrene

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 18; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MALNUTRITION;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE GROWTH; BREAST MILK; CHILD GROWTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GANGRENE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFANT; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LONG BONE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MOUTH INFLAMMATION; NIGERIA; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMATITIS; URBAN POPULATION; WASTING SYNDROME;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-18; MALNUTRITION; NIGERIA; NOMA; RURAL HEALTH;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 13244281883     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2004.01351.x     Document Type: Article

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