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Diarrhoea and malnutrition in childhood /
Diarrhoea and Malnutrition in Childhood.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Boston :
Butterworths,
1986.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; Diarrhoea and Malnutrition in Childhood; Copyright Page; Preface; Contributors; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. The interrelationships between chronic diarrhoea and malnutrition; Factors that may be implicated in the aetiology of chronic diarrhoea Effects of malnutrition on intestinal structure and function; A model for discussion; Chapter 2. The relation between weaning practices and patterns of morbidity from diarrhoea: an urban Gambian case study; Methods; Results; Discussion; Chapter 3. The impact of acute diarrhoea of different aetiologies on food intake in children
- Present study at ICDDR,BDiscussion; Chapter 4. The maintenance of mucosal integrity; Organisation of cell renewal in the gastrointestinal tract; Maintenance of mucosal integrity-mucosal responses to induced damage; Control of the proliferative response to induced damage; Chapter 5. The effect of malnutrition on gut structure, function and healing after injury; Terminology; Human versus animal studies; Malnutrition and the normal gut; Response to intestinal injury in malnutrition; Chapter 6. Which bacteria damage the gut and/or predispose to chronic diarrhoea?; EPEC; EIEC
- The role of gut-damaging bacteria in chronic diarrhoea and malnutritionConclusion; Chapter 7. Bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine; Part 1. Causes and consequences; Causes of bacterial overgrowth; Consequences of upper intestinal bacterial overgrowth; Part 2. In malnourished children; Materials and methods; Results; Discussion; Chapter 8. Shigellosis; Method; Results; Discussion; Chapter 9. Intestinal parasites; Part 1. Nutritional importance; Impact on appetite; Intestinal absorption; Intestinal balance; Intestinal losses; Effects on nutritional status; Impact on nutrient requirements
- Host nutrition and intestinal parasitesStrategies to improve nutrition by decreasing parasite prevalence; Part 2. Giardiasis: impact on child growth; Giardia and growth-historical aspects; Evidence for growth impairment in giardiasis; Natural history of Giardia infection in rural Guatemalan children; Giardia infection and physical growth; Mechanisms of growth retardation; Summary and conclusions; Part 3a. Cryptosporidium: another gut pathogen?; Methods; Results; Discussion; References; Part 3b Cryptosporidium in the post-enteritis syndrome; Detection of Cryptosporidium; Discussion
- Chapter 10. HelminthsPart 1. Trichuriasis in Africa and the Caribbean; Clinical aspects; Epidemiology; Relationship between clinical manifestation and worm load; Results; Follow-up; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Part 2. Trichuriasis in St Lucia; Details of the study; Results; Comment; Summary of essential conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 11. Chronic diarrhoea, malabsorption and the role of viruses; Tropical sprue; The problem of persistent and chronic diarrhoea-the future; Chapter 12. Do repeated attacks of acute diarrhoea cause chronic diarrhoea?