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SUBMITTER: Houpt E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4204609 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Houpt Eric E Gratz Jean J Kosek Margaret M Zaidi Anita K M AK Qureshi Shahida S Kang Gagandeep G Babji Sudhir S Mason Carl C Bodhidatta Ladaporn L Samie Amidou A Bessong Pascal P Barrett Leah L Lima Aldo A Havt Alexandre A Haque Rashidul R Mondal Dinesh D Taniuchi Mami M Stroup Suzanne S McGrath Monica M Lang Dennis D
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20141101
A central hypothesis of The Etiology, Risk Factors and Interactions of Enteric Infections and Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED) study is that enteropathogens contribute to growth faltering. To examine this question, the MAL-ED network of investigators set out to achieve 3 goals: (1) develop harmonized protocols to test for a diverse range of enteropathogens, (2) provide quality-assured and comparable results from 8 global sites, and (3) achieve maximum l ...[more]