Tropical Enteropathies

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Louis Auguste, John ^a   Kelly, Paul ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Environmental enteric dysfunction; Environmental enteropathy; Malnutrition; Tropical enteropathy; Tropical sprue

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

BACTEROIDES; BUTYRIVIBRIO; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENTEROPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENTEROPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; KWASHIORKOR; MALAWI; MALNUTRITION; MALNUTRITION ENTEROPATHY; MARASMUS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLOSPIRA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVOTELLA; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RUMINOCOCCACEAE; RURAL AREA; TROPICAL SPRUE; ZINC HOMEOSTASIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOLOGY; SMALL INTESTINE; TROPIC CLIMATE; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VACCINATION;

EID: 85019698410     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: 1534312X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-017-0570-0     Document Type: Review

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