Duodenal Microbiota in Stunted Undernourished Children with Enteropathy.
Robert Y ChenVanderlene L KungSubhasish DasM Shabab HossainMatthew C HibberdJanaki GurugeMustafa MahfuzS M Khodeza Nahar BegumM Masudur RahmanShah Mohammad FahimM Amran GaziRashidul HaqueShafiqul A SarkerRamendra N MazumderBlanda Di LucciaKazi AhsanElizabeth KennedyJesus Santiago-BorgesDmitry A RodionovSemen A LeynAndrei L OstermanMichael J BarrattTahmeed AhmedJeffrey I GordonPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2020)
These results provide support for a causal relationship between growth stunting and components of the small intestinal microbiota and enteropathy and offer a rationale for developing therapies that target these microbial contributions to EED. (Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02812615.).