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SUBMITTER: Houpt E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4204609 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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]