An exposome perspective on environmental enteric dysfunction

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1121-1126

  Mapesa, Job O ^a,b   Maxwell, Amy L ^a,c   Ryan, Elizabeth P ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b KENYA METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; FUMONISIN; VOMITOXIN;

DIET; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GROWTH; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTESTINE FLORA; MALABSORPTION; METABOLOMICS; NOTE; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANITATION; STUNTING; ZINC DEFICIENCY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; MICROFLORA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; SANITATION;

EID: 84980318155     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1510459     Document Type: Note

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