Biomarkers of Environmental Enteropathy, Inflammation, Stunting, and Impaired Growth in Children in Northeast Brazil.

Biomarkers of Environmental Enteropathy, Inflammation, Stunting, and Impaired Growth in Children in Northeast Brazil.

Critical to the design and assessment of interventions for enteropathy and its developmental consequences in children living in impoverished conditions are non-invasive biomarkers that can detect intestinal damage and predict its effects on growth and development. We therefore assessed fecal, urinar...

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Main Authors: Richard L Guerrant, Alvaro M Leite, Relana Pinkerton, Pedro H Q S Medeiros, Paloma A Cavalcante, Mark DeBoer, Margaret Kosek, Christopher Duggan, Andrew Gewirtz, Jonathan C Kagan, Anna E Gauthier, Jonathan Swann, Jordi Mayneris-Perxachs, David T Bolick, Elizabeth A Maier, Marjorie M Guedes, Sean R Moore, William A Petri, Alexandre Havt, Ila F Lima, Mara de Moura Gondim Prata, Josyf C Michaleckyj, Rebecca J Scharf, Craig Sturgeon, Alessio Fasano, Aldo A M Lima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158772

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