Environmental Enteropathy: Elusive but Significant Subclinical Abnormalities in Developing Countries
Environmental enteropathy/Environmental enteric dysfunction (EE/EED) is a chronic disease of small intestine characterized by gut inflammation and barrier disruption, malabsorption and systemic inflammation in the absence of diarrhea. It is predominantly diseases of children in low income countries...
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Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016-08-01
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Series: | EBioMedicine |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396416303395 |