Undernutrition's blind spot: a review of fecally transmitted infections in India

@article{Chambers2014UndernutritionsBS,
  title={Undernutrition's blind spot: a review of fecally transmitted infections in India},
  author={Robert Chambers and Gregor Meerganz von Medeazza},
  journal={Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development},
  year={2014},
  volume={4},
  pages={576-589}
}
With relevance to India and more widely, this review article examines links between fecally transmitted infections (FTIs) and undernutrition, presents a new framework for understanding the relative nutritional significance of FTIs, and draws practical implications for professionalism, professionals and research. In India, despite many efforts and programmes to get more and better food into children, stunting has been obstinately resistant, India remaining with about one-third of the… 
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