Interactions between zinc deficiency and environmental enteropathy in developing countries

Advances in Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-6

  Lindenmayer, Greta W ^a   Stoltzfus, Rebecca J ^b   Prendergast, Andrew J ^a,c,d  

^a Zvitambo Institute for Maternal and Child Health Research   (Zimbabwe)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ADULT; ANIMAL; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITION; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENTERITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SANITATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COMORBIDITY; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENTERITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINES; SANITATION; ZINC;

EID: 84907173660     PISSN: 21618313     EISSN: 21565376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/an.113.004838     Document Type: Review

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