"Barriers" to child development and human potential: the case for including the "neglected enteric protozoa" (NEP) and other enteropathy-associated pathogens in the NTDs

  Funding: This work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health ICIDR (International Collaboration in Infectious Disease Research) Long term impact and intervention for diarrhea in Brazil (#5 UOIAI026512), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and NIH Research in Digestive Disease...

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Published in:PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2013-04, Vol.7 (4), p.e2125-e2125
Main Authors: Bartelt, Luther A, Lima, Aldo A M, Kosek, Margaret, Peñataro Yori, Pablo, Lee, Gwenyth, Guerrant, Richard L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child
Child development
Child Development - physiology
Children & youth
Complications and side effects
Developing countries
Diarrhea
Distribution
Humans
Intestinal Diseases - epidemiology
Intestinal Diseases - parasitology
LDCs
Malnutrition in children
Medicine
Mortality
Neglected Diseases - epidemiology
Neglected Diseases - parasitology
Protozoan diseases
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Summary:  Funding: This work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health ICIDR (International Collaboration in Infectious Disease Research) Long term impact and intervention for diarrhea in Brazil (#5 UOIAI026512), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and NIH Research in Digestive Diseases Training (2T32DK007769-11) grants. [...]Lindenbaum also showed in the 1960s that Peace Corps volunteers with diarrhea and malnutrition had biochemical markers of malabsorption: 40% had decreased d-xylose levels, and 52% had low Schilling tests. [...]88% of intestinal biopsies from these volunteers showed mild to moderate jejunitis with decreased villus:crypt ratios [6].
ISSN:1935-2735
1935-2727
1935-2735
DOI:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002125