A novel histological index for evaluation of environmental enteric dysfunction identifies geographic-specific features of enteropathy among children with suboptimal growth.

• Main Authors: Ta-Chiang Liu (Author), Kelley VanBuskirk (Author), Syed A Ali (Author), M Paul Kelly (Author), Lori R Holtz (Author), Omer H Yilmaz (Author), Kamran Sadiq (Author), Najeeha Iqbal (Author), Beatrice Amadi (Author), Sana Syed (Author), Tahmeed Ahmed (Author), Sean Moore (Author), I Malick Ndao (Author), Michael H Isaacs (Author), John D Pfeifer (Author), Hannah Atlas (Author), Phillip I Tarr (Author), Donna M Denno (Author), Christopher A Moskaluk (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

<h4>Background</h4>A major limitation to understanding the etiopathogenesis of environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is the lack of a comprehensive, reproducible histologic framework for characterizing the small bowel lesions. We hypothesized that the development of such a system will...