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SUBMITTER: George CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4530746 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
George Christine Marie CM Oldja Lauren L Biswas Shwapon K SK Perin Jamie J Lee Gwenyth O GO Ahmed Shahnawaz S Haque Rashidul R Sack R Bradley RB Parvin Tahmina T Azmi Ishrat J IJ Bhuyian Sazzadul Islam SI Talukder Kaisar A KA Faruque Abu G AG
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20150608 2
Undernutrition is estimated to be an underlying cause of over half of all deaths in young children globally. There is a growing body of literature suggesting that increased exposure to enteric pathogens is responsible for environmental enteropathy (EE), a disorder associated with impaired growth in children. To determine if household unsanitary environmental conditions were significantly associated with EE and stunting in children, we conducted a cohort of 216 children (≤ 30 months) in rural Ban ...[more]