Environmental enteric dysfunction and child stunting

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 240-253

  Budge, Sophie ^a   Parker, Alison H ^a   Hutchings, Paul T ^a   Garbutt, Camila ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Energy and Environment ^*  (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTERITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERIC DYSFUNCTION; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTESTINE INFECTION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; SANITATION; STUNTING; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH DISORDER; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFANT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SANITATION;

EID: 85062391144     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 17534887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nutrit/nuy068     Document Type: Review

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