Recent advances in understanding the long-term sequelae of childhood infectious diarrhea

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Scharf, Rebecca J ^a   DeBoer, Mark D ^a   Guerrant, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Early childhood development; Early childhood infectious diarrhea; Enteric disease; Environmental enteric dysfunction; Environmental enteropathy; Long term sequelae; Malnutrition; Pediatric infectious disease

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COST OF ILLNESS; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INTESTINE INFECTION; LEARNING; MALNUTRITION; MORBIDITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STUNTING; WATER QUALITY; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84901540715     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: 15343146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-014-0408-y     Document Type: Review

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