A Microbiota-Directed Food Intervention for Undernourished Children.
Robert Y ChenIshita MostafaMatthew C HibberdSubhasish DasMustafa MahfuzNurun N NailaM Munirul IslamSayeeda HuqMohammed Ashraful AlamMahabub U ZamanArjun S RamanDaniel WebberCyrus ZhouVinaik SundaresanKazi AhsanMartin F MeierMichael J BarrattTahmeed AhmedJeffrey I GordonPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2021)
These findings provide support for MDCF-2 as a dietary supplement for young children with moderate acute malnutrition and provide insight into mechanisms by which this targeted manipulation of microbiota components may be linked to growth. (Supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institutes of Health; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04015999.).