Gilmartin Allissia A, Petri William A
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2015 Jun 19;370(1671). doi: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0143.
Environmental enteropathy (EE) is a poorly defined state of intestinal inflammation without overt diarrhoea that occurs in individuals exposed over time to poor sanitation and hygiene. It is characterized pathologically by small intestine villous blunting and inflammation. In children from low-income countries, it is implicated as a cause of malnutrition, oral vaccine failure and impaired cognitive development. Here we review the search for non-invasive biomarkers to measure EE non-invasively, and assess the current evidence linking EE to malnutrition, vaccine failure and neurocognitive development.
环境肠病(EE)是一种定义不明确的肠道炎症状态,无明显腹泻,发生在长期暴露于卫生条件差和卫生习惯不良环境中的个体。其病理特征为小肠绒毛变钝和炎症。在低收入国家的儿童中,它被认为是营养不良、口服疫苗失效和认知发育受损的一个原因。在此,我们综述了寻找非侵入性生物标志物以无创测量环境肠病的研究,并评估了目前将环境肠病与营养不良、疫苗失效和神经认知发育联系起来的证据。