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Mycotoxins as a Risk Factor in Childhood Growth Impairment Worldwide

Objective

Improve scientific and public health understanding of how dietary mycotoxin exposure, in conjunction with other risk factors for diarrheal diseases, affects child growth development in low-income nations.

More information

Utilize biomarkers developed from studies in humans in Guatemala to assess biomarkers of fumonisin exposure in maize consumers and their correlation with the incidence of diarrheal diseases and child growth development in Nepal and Tanzania.

Investigators
Voss, Ken
Institution
USDA - Agricultural Research Service
Start date
2013
End date
2015
Funding Source
Agricultural Research Service
Project number
6040-42000-012-04R
Accession number
424905
Categories
Parasites
Bacterial Pathogens
Natural Toxins
Mycotoxins
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