Environmental enteric dysfunction and growth failure/stunting in global child health

Pediatrics

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Owino, Victor ^a   Ahmed, Tahmeed ^b   Freemark, Michael ^c   Kelly, Paul ^d,e   Loy, Alexander ^f   Manary, Mark ^g   Loechl, Cornelia ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BUDESONIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALGRANULIN; CD14 ANTIGEN; DRINKING WATER; FERRITIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LACTOFERRIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESALAZINE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; NEOPTERIN; OGLUFANIDE; SOMATOMEDIN C; STABLE ISOTOPE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTEROIDALES; BREAST FEEDING; BREATH ANALYSIS; CHILD HEALTH; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUAL SUGAR TEST; DYSBIOSIS; ENTERITIS; ENTEROPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERIC DYSFUNCTION; EPIGENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOMICS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALABSORPTION; MALNUTRITION; MANNITOL TEST; METABOLOMICS; MINERAL SUPPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SANITATION; STUNTING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TRANSCRIPTOMICS; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; GROWTH DISORDERS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENT; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GLOBAL HEALTH; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85008400352     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-0641     Document Type: Article

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