Contribution of Enteric Infection, Altered Intestinal Barrier Function, and Maternal Malnutrition to Infant Malnutrition in Bangladesh
Author(s) -
Dinesh Mondal,
Juliana Minak,
Masud Alam,
Yue Liu,
Jingying Dai,
Poonum Korpe,
Lei Liu,
Rashidul Haque,
William A. Petri
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cir807
Subject(s) - diarrhea , medicine , malnutrition , enterotoxigenic escherichia coli , cryptosporidium , rotavirus , pediatrics , entamoeba histolytica , immunology , feces , microbiology and biotechnology , enterotoxin , biology , biochemistry , escherichia coli , gene
Malnourished children are at increased risk for death due to diarrhea. Our goal was to determine the contribution of specific enteric infections to malnutrition-associated diarrhea and to determine the role of enteric infections in the development of malnutrition.
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