Gut damage identified as cause of vaccine failure, malnutrition

Discovery offers new strategy to improve nutrition of infants

Date: December 14, 2015

Source: University of Virginia Health System

Summary:

Damage to the gut from infections is causing vaccine failure and contributing to malnutrition in low-income countries, researchers have determined. Research in Bangladesh sheds light on why: damage to the gut from infection, say researchers, explains why food alone is not a solution to malnutrition. To be effective, nutritional therapy will need to include measures to prevent or treat the damage to the gut of infants.

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