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Malaria and Malnutrition: Kwashiorkor Associated with Low Levels of Parasitaemia

Malaria Research and Treatment, 2018
Background The relationship between protein energy malnutrition (PEM) and malaria is controversial. While most studies demonstrate that PEM is associated with greater malaria morbidity, some indicate that PEM may in fact have a protective effect.
Per Fevang, K. Havemann, B. Fevang, A. T. Høstmark   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Interventions Targeting Child Undernutrition in Developing Countries May Be Undermined by Dietary Exposure to Aflatoxin [PDF]

, 2015
Child undernutrition, a form of malnutrition, is a major public health burden in developing countries. Supplementation interventions targeting the major micronutrient deficiencies have only reduced the burden of child undernutrition to a certain extent ...
Apeagyei F., Brown K.H., Brown K.H., Chapot B., de Benoist B., de Vries H.R., Harvey R.B., Hatem N.L., International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Jiang Y., Jonsyn F.E., Kimanya M.E., Lamplugh S.M., Mahawithange S.T., Michael Routledge, Mutegi C.K., Onyemelukwe G.C., Ramakrishnan U., Ramjee G., Rivera J.A., Shirima C.P., Sinead Watson, Tielsch J.M., Wild C.P., Williams J.H., World health Organization Working Group, Yun Yun Gong   +26 more
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Anaeromassilibacillus senegalensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the gut of a child with kwashiorkor

new microbes and new infections, 2016
We report the main characteristics of Anaeromassilibacillus senegalensis strain mt9T (= CSUR P1511) isolated from the stool of a 1-year-old kwashiorkor patient from Senegal.
E. Guilhot, M. Tidjani Alou, A. Diallo, D. Raoult, S. Khelaifia   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Kenyan Leafy Green Vegetables, Wild Fruits, and Medicinal Plants with Potential Relevance for Kwashiorkor

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2015
Background. Inflammation, together with related oxidative stress, is linked with the etiology of kwashiorkor, a form of severe acute malnutrition in children.
H. R. Tufts, Cory S. Harris, Cory S. Harris, Z. Bukania, T. Johns   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A kwashiorkor case due to the use of an exclusive rice milk diet to treat atopic dermatitis

Nutrix Journal, 2015
Although several cases of severe hypoalbuminemia resulting from rice milk have been described in the past, today the use of rice milk without nutritional counseling to treat eczema is still a continuing, poor practice.
F. Mori, D. Serranti, S. Barni, N. Pucci, M. E. Rossi, M. de Martino, E. Novembre   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Tropical calcific pancreatitis.........An overview [PDF]

, 1994
Tropical calcific pancreatitis is a nonalcoholic type of chronic pancreatitis affecting the childrens and young adults characterized clinically by recurrent abdominal pain in childhood, diabetes in adolescent and death in early childhood.
Chowdhury, Riaz, Harada, Hideo, Matsumoto, Shooji, Mizushima, Takaaki, Ochi, Koji, Senou, Toshinobu, Tanaka, Juntaro, Tanizaki, Yoshiro   +7 more
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Symbiosis As The Way Of Eukaryotic Life: The Dependent Co-Origination Of The Body [PDF]

, 2014
Molecular analyses of symbiotic relationships are challenging our biological definitions of individuality and supplanting them with a new notion of normal part whole relationships. This new notion is that of a \u27holobiont\u27, a consortium of organisms
Gilbert, Scott F.
core   +2 more sources

Antibiotics as part of the management of severe acute malnutrition [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Severe acute malnutrition contributes to 1 million deaths among children annually. Adding routine antibiotic agents to nutritional therapy may increase recovery rates and decrease mortality among children with severe acute malnutrition ...
Goldbach, Hayley S, LaGrone, Lacey N, Maleta, Kenneth M, Manary, Mark J, Meuli, Guthrie J, Trehan, Indi, Wang, Richard J   +6 more
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A Clinical Study of the Distribution and Morphology of Harris Lines

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Harris lines are commonly used in bioarcheology to infer lifestyle in ancient populations; however, their etiology and identification parameters are still under debate. The aim of this study is to observe the distribution of the lesions in a contemporary clinical sample to address their association with etiological factors, age, biological sex,
Claudia Moro, Lucie Biehler‐Gomez, Pranavan Selliah, Carmelo Messina, Mayorathan Uruthirapasupathi, Daniele Maria Gibelli, Federica Boschi, Cristina Cattaneo   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges in the management of HIV-infected malnourished children in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

, 2012
Infection with HIV, and oftentimes coinfection with TB, complicates the care of severely malnourished children in sub-Saharan Africa. These superimposed infections challenge clinicians faced with a population of malnourished children for whose care ...
Heikens, G.T., O'Hare, Bernadette Ann-Marie, Phiri, A., Trehan, I.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources