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             Study in Malawi Links Microbes to Malnutrition Deaths

   A new study finds giving malnourished children antibiotics along with
   the usual nutritional treatment could save tens of thousands of lives
   each year.
   The study of children in Malawi found some stayed healthy or responded
   favorably to a nutrient treatment after becoming malnourished while
   their brother or sister did not. The researchers then discovered
   intestinal microbes in children were affecting how they were able to
   stay healthy or respond to nutritional treatment.
   They found a week of medicine raised the survival and recovery rates of
   children treated for malnutrition.
   The findings were further bolstered when the researchers conducted a
   second study that implanted microbes from the healthy and malnourished
   twins into mice. The mice with microbes from malnourished children lost
   weight and developed an abnormal metabolism.
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   nutrition-deaths/1594383.html

References

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