Donna M. Denno, Sheraz Ahmed, Tahmeed Ahmed, Asad Ali et al.
Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is an asymptomatic acquired disorder characterized by upper small bowel inflammation, villus blunting, and gut permeability. It is a major contributor to poor growth in childhood as well as other highly consequential outcomes such as delayed neuorcognitive dev...
Kelley VanBuskirk, Monica Mweetwa, Tad Kolterman, Shyam S. Raghavan et al.
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is characterized by reduced absorptive capacity and barrier function of the small intestine, leading to poor ponderal and linear childhood growth. OBJECTIVES: To further define gene expression patterns that are associated with EED to uncover new pa...
Simon N. Stuart, Shaikha Al Dhaheri, Elizabeth L. Bennett, Duan Biggs et al.
Abstract A controversy at the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress on the topic of closing domestic ivory markets (the 007, or so-called James Bond, motion) has given rise to a debate on IUCN's value proposition. A cross-section of authors who are engaged in IUCN but not employed by the organizatio...
Yin Mo, Ying Ding, Yang Cao, Jill Hopkins et al.
<ns3:p> <ns3:bold>Background</ns3:bold> : <ns3:bold/> Antimicrobial resistance surveillance is essential for empiric antibiotic prescribing, infection prevention and control policies and to drive novel antibiotic discovery. However, most existing surveillance systems are isolate-based without suppor...
Amy R. Klegarth, Chigozie A. Ezeonwu, Aida Louise Tenden Rompis, Benjamin P. Y.‐H. Lee et al.
Survey results showed treponemal infection among pet macaques in Southeast Asia, a region with a high prevalence of human yaws. This finding, along with studies showing treponemal infection in nonhuman primates in Africa, should encourage a One Health approach to yaws eradication and surveillance ac...
Chelsea Marie, Subhasish Das, David Coomes, Tahmeed Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is an inflammatory condition of the small intestine that is prevalent in children residing in low- and middle-income countries. EED is accompanied by profound histopathologic changes in the small bowel, loss of absorptive capacity, increased intest...
Zehra Jamil, Kelley VanBuskirk, Monica Mweetwa, Samer Mouksassi et al.
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is a precursor of growth faltering in children living in impoverished conditions who are frequently exposed to environmental toxins and enteropathogens, leading to small bowel inflammatory, malabsorptive, and permeability derangements and low-grade...
Barbara Evans, LA Fletcher, MA Camargo-Valero, Soumya Balasubramanya et al.
Bangladesh is no stranger to composting projects using both green waste and faecal sludge (FS). There have been many initiatives over the years with varying degrees of success. Similarly there have been hundreds, if not thousands of projects to improve access to latrines, latrine use and latrine man...
Piet Maes, Els Van Doren, Barbara Denys, Inge Thoelen et al.
To achieve the goal of poliovirus eradication, surveillance of endemic areas is a crucial step in the poliovirus eradication program. Currently, six countries still have endemic poliovirus. We have tested a novel method which uses SDS/EDTA-treated chromatography paper strips to collect and transport...
Vukašin Gligorić, John T. Jost, Iva Mićanović, Odeta Tase et al.
The assumption that people favor ingroups and disfavor outgroups is based largely on theory and research from Western countries. However, groups subjected to economic exploitation and inequality might come to favor more advantaged outgroups. The present large-scale study ( N = 12,339) involving 45 n...
K. Welle, John Mark Tucker, Alan Nicol, Barbara Evans
A study in three countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Uganda) assessed progress against the Paris Principles for Aid Effectiveness (AE) in three sectors – water, health and education – to test the assumption that the water sector is lagging behind. The findings show that it is too simplistic to say t...
Garth Funston, Eileen Morgan, Tracey L. Adams, Rafe Sadnan Adel et al.
Peter W. Burr, Ian Ross, Rebecca Zaman, Alejandra Mujica et al.
This report provides an evidence-based overview of the ‘operational sustainability’ of water and sanitation services across the South Asian region. It brings together large-scale representative data collected in Bangladesh and Pakistan as part of the VFM-WASH project, as well as robust secondary dat...
Kajus Merkevičius, Dmitrii Smirnov, Lea D. Schlieben, Rebecca Ganetzky et al.
This retrospective study on X-linked PDHA1-related pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHc) deficiency combined a systematic literature review with a multicenter survey exploring genotypes, phenotypes, and survival. Data from 891 individuals (45% unpublished) were included. Of note, 53% of cases were f...
MTR Editorial Office
The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous peer review process in 2023, regardless of whether the submissions were finally published or not. In 2023, a total of 50 articles were submitted to the journal, wit...