Fighting Undernutrition: Don't Forget the Bugs

被引:8
作者
Claus, Sandrine Paule [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Reading, Dept Nutr & Food Sci, Reading RG6 6AP, Berks, England
关键词
MALNUTRITION; HEALTH; GUT;
D O I
10.1016/j.chom.2013.02.015
中图分类号
Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Severe acute malnutrition is a major cause of child death in developing countries. In a recent study, Smith et al. (2013) monitored a large twin cohort in Malawi to unveil a causal relationship between gut microbiota and weight loss in undernutrition.
引用
收藏
页码:239 / 240
页数:2
相关论文
共 8 条
[1]  
Ahmed T, 2009, INDIAN J MED RES, V130, P651
[2]   Use of metagenomics to understand the genetic basis of malnutrition [J].
Ahmed, Tahmeed ;
Haque, Rashidul ;
Ahmed, Abul Mansur Shamsir ;
Petri, William A., Jr. ;
Cravioto, Alejandro .
NUTRITION REVIEWS, 2009, 67 (11) :S201-S206
[3]  
Black RE, 2008, LANCET, V371, P243, DOI [10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61690-0, 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60937-X]
[4]   Eating For Two: How Metabolism Establishes lnterspecies Interactions in the Gut [J].
Fischbach, Michael A. ;
Sonnenburg, Justin L. .
CELL HOST & MICROBE, 2011, 10 (04) :336-347
[5]   Metabolic phenotyping in health and disease [J].
Holmes, Elaine ;
Wilson, Ian D. ;
Nicholson, Jeremy K. .
CELL, 2008, 134 (05) :714-717
[6]   Gut Microbiomes of Malawian Twin Pairs Discordant for Kwashiorkor [J].
Smith, Michelle I. ;
Yatsunenko, Tanya ;
Manary, Mark J. ;
Trehan, Indi ;
Mkakosya, Rajhab ;
Cheng, Jiye ;
Kau, Andrew L. ;
Rich, Stephen S. ;
Concannon, Patrick ;
Mychaleckyj, Josyf C. ;
Liu, Jie ;
Houpt, Eric ;
Li, Jia V. ;
Holmes, Elaine ;
Nicholson, Jeremy ;
Knights, Dan ;
Ursell, Luke K. ;
Knight, Rob ;
Gordon, Jeffrey I. .
SCIENCE, 2013, 339 (6119) :548-554
[7]   Community Health Care: Therapeutic Opportunities in the Human Microbiome [J].
Sonnenburg, Justin L. ;
Fischbach, Michael A. .
SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE, 2011, 3 (78)
[8]  
Williams C D, 1933, Arch Dis Child, V8, P423