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Lactose intolerance among severely malnourished children with diarrhoea admitted to the nutrition unit, Mulago hospital, Uganda

BACKGROUND: Lactose intolerance is a common complication of diarrhoea in infants with malnutrition and a cause of treatment failure. A combination of nutritional injury and infectious insults in severe protein energy malnutrition reduces the capacity of the intestinal mucosa to produce lactase enzym...

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Autores principales: Nyeko, Richard, Kalyesubula, Israel, Mworozi, Edison, Bachou, Hanifa
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20459633
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-10-31