Gut integrity and duodenal enteropathogen burden in undernourished children with environmental enteric dysfunction.

• Main Authors: Zehra Jamil (Author), Najeeha Talat Iqbal (Author), Romana Idress (Author), Zubair Ahmed (Author), Kamran Sadiq (Author), Indika Mallawaarachchi (Author), Junaid Iqbal (Author), Sana Syed (Author), Aneeta Hotwani (Author), Furqan Kabir (Author), Kumail Ahmed (Author), Sheraz Ahmed (Author), Fayaz Umrani (Author), Jennie Z Ma (Author), Fatima Aziz (Author), Adil Kalam (Author), Sean R Moore (Author), Syed Asad Ali (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is a subclinical condition of intestinal inflammation, barrier dysfunction and malabsorption associated with growth faltering in children living in poverty. This study explores association of altered duodenal permeability (lactulose, rhamnose and their ratio)...