Iron fortification adversely affects the gut microbiome, increases pathogen abundance and induces intestinal inflammation in Kenyan infants

Gut

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 731-742

  Jaeggi, Tanja ^a   Kortman, Guus A M ^b   Moretti, Diego ^a   Chassard, Christophe ^a   Holding, Penny ^c   Dostal, Alexandra ^a   Boekhorst, Jos ^d   Timmerman, Harro M ^d   Swinkels, Dorine W ^b   Tjalsma, Harold ^b   Njenga, Jane ^e   Mwangi, Alice ^e   Kvalsvig, Jane ^f   Lacroix, Christophe ^a   Zimmermann, Michael B ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c International Center for Behavioural Studies   (Kenya)

^d NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALGRANULIN; EDETATE IRON; FERROUS FUMARATE; RNA 16S; TRACE ELEMENT; IRON INTAKE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCETALES; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDETES; BIFIDOBACTERIACEAE; CHILD GROWTH; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENTERITIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM RECTALE; FAECALIBACTERIUM; FIRMICUTES; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; KENYAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MAIZE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; POWDER; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROSEBURIA; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BACTERIUM; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROCOLITIS; FECES; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; INTESTINE; IRON INTAKE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHARMACOLOGY;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BACTERIA; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENTEROCOLITIS; FECES; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINES; IRON, DIETARY; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MICROBIOTA; MICRONUTRIENTS;

EID: 84928881926     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2014-307720     Document Type: Article

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