Thomas G Brewer

TL;DR: It is suggested that prioritizing vaccine introduction and interventions to reduce diarrhea-associated morbidity and mortality is necessary in the continued global reduction of rotavirus infection.

TL;DR: The global burden of shigella and ETEC diarrhoea according to age, sex, geography, and year from 1990 to 2016 is analyzed to assess the health burden of bacterial diarrhoeal pathogens globally.

TL;DR: It is estimated that diarrhoea from Cryptosporidium infection caused an additional 7·85 million disability-adjusted life-years after the authors accounted for its effect on growth faltering—153% more than that estimated from acute effects alone.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide recommendations to define and validate a working clinical diagnosis and to guide critical research in this area to effectively proceed, and provide recommendations for early gut functional changes and inflammation may preclude or mitigate the later adverse vicious cycle of malnutrition and infection.

TL;DR: Changes in small bowel function early in infancy in developing countries are increasingly being demonstrated, probably accompanied by altered mucosal architecture in most individuals, including reduced enterocyte mass and evidence of immune activation and inflammation in the mucosa, which may be a cause of growth faltering and stunting in young children.