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SUBMITTER: Kosek M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4204611 | biostudies-other | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Kosek Margaret M Guerrant Richard L RL Kang Gagandeep G Bhutta Zulfiqar Z Yori Pablo Peñataro PP Gratz Jean J Gottlieb Michael M Lang Dennis D Lee Gwenyth G Haque Rashidul R Mason Carl J CJ Ahmed Tahmeed T Lima Aldo A Petri William A WA Houpt Eric E Olortegui Maribel Paredes MP Seidman Jessica C JC Mduma Estomih E Samie Amidou A Babji Sudhir S
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20141101
Individuals in the developing world live in conditions of intense exposure to enteric pathogens due to suboptimal water and sanitation. These environmental conditions lead to alterations in intestinal structure, function, and local and systemic immune activation that are collectively referred to as environmental enteropathy (EE). This condition, although poorly defined, is likely to be exacerbated by undernutrition as well as being responsible for permanent growth deficits acquired in early chil ...[more]