Intestinal Inflammation Measured by Fecal Neopterin in Gambian Children With Enteropathy: Association With Growth Failure, Giardia lamblia, and Intestinal Permeability

Abstract

Consistent with the theory that intestinal inflammation in tropical infants may impair growth, fecal neopterin concentrations were inversely associated with growth. Factors other than Giardia are causing enteropathy and growth failure in Gambian infants.