Environmental Enteropathy: Elusive but Significant Subclinical Abnormalities in Developing Countries

Environmental enteropathy/Environmental enteric dysfunction (EE/EED) is a chronic disease of small intestine characterized by gut inflammation and barrier disruption, malabsorption and systemic inflammation in the absence of diarrhea. It is predominantly diseases of children in low income countries...

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Main Authors: Koji Watanabe, William A. Petri Jr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-08-01
Series:EBioMedicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396416303395