Fecal Tumor Necrosis Factor‐α and Calprotectin as Differential Diagnostic Markers for Severe Diarrhea of Small Infants

Abstract

Determination of fecal inflammatory markers is a simple method helping to distinguish constitutive from immuno-inflammatory etiologies of severe persistent diarrhea. These data also suggest that constitutive enterocyte disorders are not accompanied by an inflammatory mucosal reaction.