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Persistent gut microbiota immaturity in malnourished Bangladeshi children
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Therapeutic food interventions have reduced mortality in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), but incomplete restoration of healthy growth remains a major problem. The relationships between the type of nutritional intervention, the gut microbiota, and therapeutic responses are unclear. In the current study, bacterial species whose proportional representation define a healthy gut microbiota as it assembles during the first two postnatal years were identified by applying a machine-learning-based approach to 16S ribosomal RNA data sets generated from monthly faecal samples obtained from birth onwards in a cohort of children living in an urban slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh, who exhibited consistently healthy growth. These age-discriminatory bacterial species were incorporated into a model that computes a ‘relative microbiota maturity index’ and ‘microbiota-for-age Z-score’ that compare postnatal assembly (defined here as maturation) of a child’s faecal microbiota relative to healthy children of similar chronologic age. The model was applied to twins and triplets (to test for associations of these indices with genetic and environmental factors, including diarrhoea), children with SAM enrolled in a randomized trial of two food interventions, and children with moderate acute malnutrition. Our results indicate that SAM is associated with significant relative microbiota immaturity that is only partially ameliorated following two widely used nutritional interventions. Immaturity is also evident in less severe forms of malnutrition and correlates with anthropometric measurements. Microbiota maturity indices provide a microbial measure of human postnatal development, a way of classifying malnourished states, and a parameter for judging therapeutic efficacy. More prolonged interventions with existing or new therapeutic foods and/or addition of gut microbes may be needed to achieve enduring repair of gut microbiota immaturity in childhood malnutrition and improve clinical outcomes.
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A machine-learning model based on age-discriminatory fecal bacterial taxa defines gut microbiota maturation in healthy Bangladeshi children and shows that severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is associated with marked microbiota immaturity that is only partially and transiently improved by two food interventions. The same immaturity is seen in moderate acute malnutrition and correlates with anthropometric status.
Key findings
- A Random Forests model using the top 24 age-discriminatory 97% ID OTUs explained 73% of variance in chronologic age in healthy Bangladeshi children and generalized to independent healthy singleton and twin/triplet validation sets (r² = 0.71 and 0.68, respectively).
- In 64 children with SAM (mean enrollment WHZ −4.2 ± 0.7), relative microbiota maturity and microbiota-for-age Z-scores were significantly lower than in healthy children at enrollment and end of nutritional rehabilitation (Dunnett’s p < 0.0001 for both treatment groups); improvements after RUTF or Khichuri-Halwa were not durable, with regression to significant immaturity beyond 4 months after treatment stopped.
- RUTF and Khichuri-Halwa did not differ significantly in weight gain (10.9 ± 4.6 vs 10.4 ± 5.4 g/kg/day; p = 0.7), and WHZ remained lower than healthy children during follow-up (−2.1 ± 1.2 Khichuri-Halwa; −2.4 ± 0.8 RUTF vs −0.5 ± 1.1 healthy; p < 0.0001).
- In a cross-sectional analysis at 18 months, children with MAM had significantly lower relative microbiota maturity and MAZ scores than healthy children, and these metrics correlated with WHZ (Spearman rho = 0.62 and 0.63; p < 0.001); 220 bacterial taxa differed in SAM vs healthy, with 165 significantly diminished during longer-term follow-up in both treatment groups.
Methods
- Healthy Bangladeshi birth cohorts in Mirpur, Dhaka: 50 children followed monthly for up to ~24 months (25 singletons, 11 twin pairs, 1 triplet set; 996 fecal samples), plus twins/triplets for validation; SAM trial enrolled 64 children aged 6–20 months randomized to imported RUTF (Plumpy’Nut) or locally produced Khichuri-Halwa; MAM analysis used 33 children at 18 months.
- Fecal bacterial communities were profiled by V4-16S rRNA sequencing (1,897 fecal DNA samples total; 1,222 97% ID OTUs passing detection filters), with Random Forests regression against chronologic age to identify age-discriminatory taxa and a sparse 24-taxon model to compute relative microbiota maturity and microbiota-for-age Z-score.
- Associations with clinical/dietary factors used linear mixed models, Dunnett’s post-hoc comparisons, Spearman correlations, and Mann-Whitney/Wilcoxon tests; antibiotic effects were assessed in a subset of nine children with pre-antibiotic samples.
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- The paper states that most children with SAM could not provide fecal samples before antibiotics, so effects of other antibiotics consumed singly or in combinations could not be measured; it also notes that functional roles of age-discriminatory taxa need clarification and that more clinical studies are needed to test whether microbiota immaturity persists beyond childhood.
- The paper notes that systematic analyses across different populations may show a need for geographic specificity when constructing microbiota-based models or diagnostics.
- Evident from the text: the main findings are associational, sample sizes for some subgroups are small (e.g., nine children with pre-antibiotic samples; 10 children with MAM), and treatment effects on microbiota maturity were not durable, limiting conclusions about causality or long-term therapeutic repair.
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“Immaturity is also evident in less severe forms of malnutrition and correlates with anthropometric measurements.”
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“Our results indicate that SAM is associated with significant relative microbiota immaturity that is only partially ameliorated following two widely used nutritional interventions.”
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“The regression explained 73% of the variance related to chronologic age.”
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“Minimal improvement in predictive performance was observed when including taxa beyond the top 24”
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“The model was found to be generalizable to both groups, (r2 = 0.71 and 0.68, respectively)”
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“bacterial species whose proportional representation define a healthy gut microbiota as it assembles during the first two postnatal years were identified by applying a machine-learning-based approach to 16S rRNA datasets generated from monthly fecal samples obtained from a birth-cohort of children”
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“Immaturity is also evident in less severe forms of malnutrition and correlates with anthropometric measurements.”
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“expansion of our sparse model from 24 to 60 taxa yielded similar results regarding the effects of diarrhea in healthy individuals, MAM and SAM (and its treatment with RUTF and Khichuri-Halwa) on microbiota maturity”
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“The fraction of fecal samples collected from each child where oral antibiotics had been consumed within the prior 7 days was not significantly different between the training and two validation sets (p=0.14; one-way ANOVA; see Extended Data Table 4).”
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“Linear mixed models of these specified environmental factors indicated that ‘diarrhea’, ‘month following diarrhea’ and ‘presence of formula in diet’ have significant effects on relative microbiota maturity, accounting for random effects arising from within-family and within-child dependence in measurements of this maturity metric.”
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“Diarrhea | -1.98 | 0.51 | 0.0001”
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“The microbiota/microbiome in turn plays an important role in extracting and metabolizing dietary ingredients9-14.”
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- Not checked yetcites [9] Muegge, B. D. et al. Diet drives convergence in gut microbiome functions across mammalian phylogeny and within humans. Science 332, 970–974 (2011) source
- Partly supportedcites [10] Wu, G. D. et al. Linking long-term dietary patterns with gut microbial enterotypes. Science 334, 105–108 (2011) sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The metabolic-functionality passage (section labeled Abstract; page unavailable) reports diet-associated changes in bacterial gene categories, including lipoic acid metabolism. This supports a link between diet and microbial metabolic functions, but the paper does not show that the microbiota extract dietary ingredients or directly measure their metabolism. (LLM, conf=0.78)
- Supportedcites [11] Yatsunenko, T. et al. Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography. Nature 486, 222–227 (2012) source
The section on shared functional changes (p. 6) reports microbial genes that metabolize dietary folate. The section on adult microbiomes (p. 9) describes enzymes that degrade dietary starch, amino acids, and sugars, supporting the broader point that gut microbes help extract and metabolize dietary ingredients. (LLM, conf=0.90)
- Supportedcites [12] Smith, M. I. et al. Gut microbiomes of Malawian twin pairs discordant for kwashiorkor. Science 339, 548–554 (2013) source
In “Metabolic profiles associated with kwashiorkor” (page not specified), mice carrying different gut microbiota showed different metabolic responses to dietary changes. The paper reports increased fermentation products alongside reduced sugars, supporting the broad claim that gut microbiota help metabolize dietary ingredients and extract usable products from them. (LLM, conf=0.87)
- Supportedcites [13] David, L. A. et al. Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome. Nature 505, 559–563 (2014) source
The paper’s discussion of fecal metabolites reports products of carbohydrate and amino-acid fermentation and links them to gut bacterial groups. Its abstract also identifies gut bacteria that metabolize dietary plant polysaccharides. Together, these passages support the broad claim that the gut microbiota helps process dietary ingredients. (LLM, conf=0.90)
- Partly supportedcites [14] Tang, W. H. W. et al. Intestinal microbial metabolism of phosphatidylcholine and cardiovascular risk. N. Engl. J. Med. 368, 1575–1584 (2013) sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion describes intestinal microbiota converting the choline component of dietary phosphatidylcholine into trimethylamine, supporting the dietary-metabolism part of the claim. Our copy does not address whether microbiota help extract dietary ingredients, so it does not support that part of the broader statement. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“improvement in this metric was short-lived for the RUTF and Khichuri-Halwa groups, with regression to significant immaturity relative to healthy children beyond four months after treatment was stopped”
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“Monozygotic (MZ) twins were not significantly more correlated in their maturity profiles compared to dizygotic (DZ) twins, and within the set of triplets, the two MZ siblings were not more correlated than their fraternal sibling”
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“WHZ scores are significantly inversely correlated with relative microbiota maturity (panel a) and MAZ scores (panel b) in a cross-sectional analysis of 33 children at 18 months of age who were above and below the anthropometric threshold for MAM (Spearman rho = 0.62 and 0.63, respectively; ***, p < 0.001).”
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“In the Khichuri-Halwa group, relative microbiota maturity and MAZ scores improved following treatment, but subsequently regressed, exhibiting significant differences relative to healthy children at 2-3 months, and >4 months after cessation of treatment”
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“Diarrhea | -0.44 | 0.15 | 0.0028”
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“The reduced bacterial diversity associated with SAM persisted after Khichuri-Halwa and only transiently improved with RUTF”
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“Month following Diarrhea | -0.37 | 0.16 | 0.0247”
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“Comparing children with MAM to those defined as healthy revealed significantly lower relative microbiota maturity, MAZ scores and differences in the relative abundances of age-discriminatory taxa in the malnourished group”
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“We identified a total of 220 bacterial taxa that were significantly different in their proportional representation in the fecal microbiota of children with SAM compared to healthy; 165 of these 220 97%ID OTUs were significantly diminished in the microbiota of children with SAM during the longer term follow-up period in both treatment groups”
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“Three of these 97%ID OTUs are members of the top 24 age-discriminatory taxa (blue) and belong to the genus Bifidobacterium.”
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“opposing changes in the relative abundance of Streptococcaceae and Enterobacteriaceae were readily apparent”
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“Antibiotics | RUTF | -0.37 | 0.81 | 0.65”
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“Maturity was significantly decreased in fecal samples obtained during and one month following diarrheal episodes (p<0.001 and p<0.01 respectively) but not beyond that period”
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“compared to healthy, SAM was associated with significant microbiota immaturity at the time that nutritional rehabilitation was initiated and at cessation of treatment (Dunnett’s post-hoc test, p<0.0001 for both groups; Fig. 2b)”
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“The relationship between microbiota maturity, MAZ scores and WHZ was significant (Spearman rho=0.62 and 0.63; p<0.001, respectively; Extended Data Fig. 9a,b).”
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“When preantibiotic fecal samples from these nine children were compared to samples collected at the end of all treatment interventions (dietary and antibiotic, 20±9d after admission), no significant differences in microbiota maturity (p=0.7, Wilcoxon), bacterial diversity (or WHZ scores) were found”
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“At enrollment, WHZ scores averaged -4.2±0.7 (mean±SD)”
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“Formula | +0.22 | 0.11 | 0.04”
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“There were no significant differences in the number of diarrheal episodes/year/child and the number of diarrheal days/year/child between the singleton training and validation sets (Student’s t-test, p=0.5).”
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“Enrollment | RUTF | -5.62 | 0.78 | <0.001”
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“Children with MAM (WHZ scores lower than -2 SD; grey) have significantly lower relative microbiota maturity (panel a) and MAZ scores (panel b) than healthy individuals (blue).”
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“The factors ‘postnatal age’, ‘presence/absence of solid foods’,‘exclusive breastfeeding’, ‘enteropathogen detected by microscopy’, ‘antibiotics’ as well as ‘other periods relative to diarrhea’ had no significant effect.”
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“There is similar lack of clarity about the long-term efficacy of nutritional interventions for MAM7,8.”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Abstract
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“Therapeutic food interventions have reduced mortality in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) but incomplete restoration of healthy growth remains a major problem1,2.”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites [1] Ahmed, T. et al. Mortality in severely malnourished children with diarrhoea and use of a standardised management protocol. Lancet 353, 1919–1922 (1999) source
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“although the extent to which this protocol results in long-term restoration of normal growth and development needs to be ascertained through longitudinal studies5,6”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Ahmed, T. & Begum, B. Badiuzzaman, Ali, M. & Fuchs, G. Management of severe malnutrition and diarrhea. Indian J. Pediatr. 68, 45–51 (2001) source
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“Microbiota maturity indices provide a microbial measure of human postnatal development, a way of classifying malnourished states, and a parameter for judging therapeutic efficacy.”
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“A standardized treatment protocol for SAM and its complications has been developed in Bangladesh1.”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites [1] Ahmed, T. et al. Mortality in severely malnourished children with diarrhoea and use of a standardised management protocol. Lancet 353, 1919–1922 (1999) source
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“Food is a major factor that shapes the proportional representation of organisms present in the gut microbial community (microbiota), and its gene content (microbiome).”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites [9] Muegge, B. D. et al. Diet drives convergence in gut microbiome functions across mammalian phylogeny and within humans. Science 332, 970–974 (2011) source
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“SAM and MAM typically develop between three and 24 months of life4.”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites [4] Victora, C. G., de Onis, M., Hallal, P. C., Blössner, M. & Shrimpton, R. Worldwide timing of growth faltering: revisiting implications for interventions. Pediatrics 125, e473–e480 (2010) source
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“‘Mock’ communities, consisting of mixtures of DNAs isolated from 48 sequenced members of the human gut microbiota combined in one equivalent and two intentionally varied combinations, were included as internal controls in the Illumina MiSeq runs.”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Methods > Characterizing the bacterial component of the gut microbiota by V4-16S rRNA sequencing
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“clinical trial NCT01331044”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Methods > Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) study
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“This survey, approved by the Washington University and icddr,b IRBs”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Methods > Anthropologic study
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“Epidemiological studies indicate that periods of MAM are associated with progression to SAM, and with stunting which affects >40% of children under the age of five in Bangladesh17.”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > The effects of SAM on microbiota maturity
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- Not checked yetcites [17] Dewey, K. G. et al. Infant weight-for-length is positively associated with subsequent linear growth across four different populations. Matern. Child Nutr. 1, 11–20 (2005) source
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“we could not, in cases where children were not able to provide pre-intervention fecal samples, measure the effects of other antibiotics, consumed singly or in various combinations, on their metrics of microbiota maturation”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > The effects of SAM on microbiota maturity
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“Data from the mock communities were used for diversity and precisionsensitivity analyses employing methods described previously15,23.”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Methods > Characterizing the bacterial component of the gut microbiota by V4-16S rRNA sequencing
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“The zygosity of twin pairs and triplets was determined using plasma DNA and a panel of 96 polymorphic SNPs (Center for Inherited Disease Research, Johns Hopkins University).”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Methods > Twins/Triplets birth cohort
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“A sparse model consisting of the top 24 taxa was then trained on the training set of 12 healthy singletons (272 fecal samples). Without any further parameter optimization, this model was validated in other healthy children (13 singletons, 25 twins and triplets) and then applied to samples in children with SAM and MAM.”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Methods > Defining maturation of the gut microbiota in healthy children using Random Forests
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“Children ranged in age from 6 to 20 months of age at the time of enrollment and were randomly assigned to either of the treatment arms.”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > The effects of SAM on microbiota maturity
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The relationships among nutritional intervention type, gut microbiota, and therapeutic responses are unclear.
“The relationships between the type of nutritional intervention, the gut microbiota, and therapeutic responses are unclear.”
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“a sample of children living in an urban slum in Bangladesh with either moderate acute malnutrition or severe acute malnutrition had a gut microbiota that was ‘immature’; meaning discriminatory taxa in their gut communities were more similar to younger rather than age-matched healthy individuals from the same location [165].”
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“This ‘immaturity’ was greater in those more severely malnourished with probable physiologic, metabolic, and immunologic consequences [165].”
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§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > The effects of SAM on microbiota maturity
“Within one month of follow-up, both groups had improved significantly.”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Extended Data
“| < 1 month | Khichuri-Halwa | 0.92 | 0.74 | 0.76 |”
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§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Extended Data
“WHZ scores are significantly inversely correlated with relative microbiota maturity (panel a) and MAZ scores (panel b)”
§ Persistent Gut Microbiota Immaturity in Malnourished Bangladeshi Children > Extended Data
“Spearman rho = 0.62 and 0.63, respectively”
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- Authors
- Subramanian, S., Huq, S., Yatsunenko, T., Haque, R., Mahfuz, M., Alam, M. A., Benezra, A., DeStefano, J., Meier, M. F., Muegge, B. D., Barratt, M. J., VanArendonk, L. G., Zhang, Q., Province, M. A., Petri Jr, W. A., Ahmed, T., & Gordon, J. I.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (BD)
- The New School (US)
- Corresponding author
- Gordon, Jeffrey I.
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- Nature
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- 2014-06
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- 510
- Issue
- 7505
- Pages
- 417-421
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC4189846
- OpenAlex
- W2151241623
- Semantic Scholar
- 2322f52fd0751c363caa63b546dc30848772f2e3
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- 1,270
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- 28
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- 36.93
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- journal article
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- en
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- Funders
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007067)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (AI 043596, R01AI043596)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Infant Nutrition and Health
- Keywords
- gut microbiota, severe acute malnutrition, child malnutrition, food-based interventions, probiotics, prebiotics, fecal microbiota transplantation, diarrhea, twins and triplets, Bangladesh, low-income countries, 16S rRNA
- MeSH terms
- Bacteria, Bangladesh, Feces, Female, Humans, Infant, Infant Nutrition Disorders, Male, Models, Biological, Nutritional Status, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Bacterial Physiological Phenomena, Gastrointestinal Tract, Biodiversity, Microbiota
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