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Microbial Nourishment for Undernutrition

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The gut microbiome and early-life growth in a population with high prevalence of stuntingPreprint

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Stunting is associated with persistent and transferable alterations in the gut microbiome

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Host-microbiome determinants of ready-to-use supplemental food efficacy in acute childhood malnutrition

Jamil, Z., Hanson, G. F., Iqbal, J., Moreau, G. B., Iqbal, N. T., Ahmed, S., Hotwani, A., Kabir, F., Umrani, F. A., Sadiq, K., et al. (2025) · JCI Insight · doi:10.1172/jci.insight.188993 · Cited by 4

Innovations in Addressing Pediatric Diarrhea in Low Resource Settings

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Establishing microbiome causality to tackle malnutrition

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Reduce, reinforce, and replenish: safeguarding the early-life microbiota to reduce intergenerational health disparities

Dai, D. L., Petersen, C., & Turvey, S. E. (2024) · Frontiers in Public Health · doi:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1455503 · Cited by 7

Novel gastrointestinal tools (GI Tools) for evaluating gut functional capacity in adults with environmental enteropathy in Zambia and Zimbabwe: A cross-sectional study protocol

Phiri, T. N., Weatherill, J. W., Sánchez, E. M., Serrano-Contreras, J. I., Melvin, C., Kunaka, M., Chisenga, I., Ngalande, P., Mweetwa, M. N., Besa, E. C., et al. (2025) · F1000Research · doi:10.12688/f1000research.154471.2 · Cited by 4

Social and environmental predictors of gut microbiome age in wild baboons

Dasari, M. R., Roche, K. E., Jansen, D., Anderson, J. A., Alberts, S. C., Tung, J., Gilbert, J. A., Blekhman, R., Mukherjee, S., & Archie, E. A. (2025) · eLife · doi:10.7554/elife.102166.3 · Cited by 4

Neurodevelopment and the gut microbiome

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The appropriate dose of Bacillus cereus improves the homeostasis of intestinal microbiota but does not significantly influence microbial functions in Paramisgurnus dabryanus

Li, H., Zhang, W., Gao, Y., Tian, X., Chu, Z., Cai, Y., & Wang, L. (2021) · Aquaculture Research · doi:10.1111/are.15605 · Cited by 4

Underdevelopment of gut microbiota in failure to thrive infants of up to 12 months of age

Zhang, M., Miao, D., Ma, Q., Chen, T., Wang, T., Yan, S., Zhu, W., Zhou, F., He, J., & Kuang, X. (2022) · Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology · doi:10.3389/fcimb.2022.1049201 · Cited by 5

Microbiota and growth among infants and children in low-income and middle-income settings

Njunge, J. M., & Walson, J. L. (2023) · Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care · doi:10.1097/mco.0000000000000927 · Cited by 4

Probiotic Supplementation for Promotion of Growth in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-AnalysisPreprint

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Prevotella copri -related effects of a therapeutic food for malnutritionPreprint

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Current progress on the microbial therapies for acute liver failure

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Acceptability of Microbiota-Directed Complementary Foods in Treating Indian Children with Moderate Acute Malnutrition: eACT-MAM Pre-Proof-of-Concept Study

Marconi, S. D., Sinha, B., Apte, A. A., Sasikumar, M., Aggarwal, G., Chabukswar, R., Vasudevan, A., Miyandad, Z., Pandian, S., Shambharkar, P., et al. (2024) · Journal of Nutrition · doi:10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.11.001 · Cited by 3

Child health, nutrition and gut microbiota development during the first two years of life; study protocol of a prospective cohort study from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Shahzad, M. A., Ismail, M., Misselwitz, B., Saidal, A., Andrews, S. C., Iqbal, K., Akarsu, H., & Nabhani, Z. A. (2025) · F1000Research · doi:10.12688/f1000research.158415.2 · Cited by 3

Characterizing the relationship between gut microbiota development and healthy growth

Chang, H.-W. (2021) · Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis) · doi:10.7936/mf7m-8004

A microbiota-directed complementary food intervention in 12–18-month-old Bangladeshi children improves linear growth

Mostafa, I., Hibberd, M. C., Hartman, S. J., Rahman, M. H. H., Mahfuz, M., Hasan, S. M. T., Ashorn, P., Barratt, M. J., Ahmed, T., & Gordon, J. I. (2024) · EBioMedicine · doi:10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105166 · Cited by 48

A Microbiota-Directed Food Intervention for Undernourished Children

Chen, R. Y., Mostafa, I., Hibberd, M. C., Das, S., Mahfuz, M., Naila, N. N., Islam, M. M., Huq, S., Alam, M. A., Zaman, M. U., et al. (2021) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejmoa2023294 · Cited by 306

Computational and mathematical modeling of microbial community and host responses to microbiota-directed complementary foods administered to children with acute malnutrition.

Hartman, S. (2025) · Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis) · doi:10.7936/k6wz-gm42

Using gnotobiotic mice to decipher effects of gut microbiome repair in undernourished children on tuft and goblet cell function

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