Objective To investigate the relationship between faecal contamination in child play spaces,
enteric infections, environmental enteropathy (EE) and impaired growth among young …

Undernutrition is estimated to be an underlying cause of over half of all deaths in young
children globally. There is a growing body of literature suggesting that increased exposure …

Abstract Objective Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED) can be assessed by faecal
biomarkers such as Myeloperoxidase (MPO), Neopterin (NEO) and Alpha‐1 anti‐trypsin …

Introduction Environmental enteropathy is an important contributor to childhood malnutrition
in the developing world. Chronic exposure to fecal pathogens leads to alteration in intestinal …

We assessed the relationship of fecal environmental contamination and environmental
enteropathy. We compared markers of environmental enteropathy, parasite burden, and …

Objective To characterise childhood mouthing behaviours and to investigate the association
between object‐to‐mouth and food‐to‐mouth contacts, diarrhoea prevalence and …

The microbial communities residing in the child gut are thought to play an important role in
child growth, although the relationship is not well understood. We examined a cohort of …

Recent studies suggest small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is common among
developing world children. SIBO's pathogenesis and effect in the developing world are …

Background. Malnourished children are at increased risk for death due to diarrhea. Our goal
was to determine the contribution of specific enteric infections to malnutrition-associated …

There is a growing body of literature indicating an association between stunting and
environmental enteropathy (EE), a disorder thought to be caused by repeated exposures to …