Nutritional Enteric Failure: Neglected Tropical Diseases and Childhood Stunting

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Tickell, Kirkby D ^a   Walson, Judd L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN 6;

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE INFECTION; METABOLIC ACTIVITY ASSAY; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STUNTING SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPLICATION; GROWTH DISORDERS; INFANT; NEGLECTED DISEASES; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; NEGLECTED DISEASES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84964863071     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004523     Document Type: Editorial

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