Sentences with phrase «from kwashiorkor»

In the ER, doctors determined the girl suffered from kwashiorkor, a nutritional disorder rarely seen in the developed world.

Whereas the shrunken child (suffering from marasmus) was short of all types of food, the pot - bellied child (suffering from kwashiorkor) particularly lacked protein.

Not exact matches

These mice had all received a faecal sample from the children with kwashiorkor.

The researchers collected and froze stool samples from a set of twins, one who had kwashiorkor and one who did not.

The mice with the bacteria from the child with kwashiorkor lost, then gained and lost again, more weight than the mice with bacteria from the healthy twin.

Similarly, we could take microbes from Malawian children with kwashiorkor, a profound nutritional deficiency, transplant them into germ - free mice and transfer the malnutrition, although the mice that received the microbes from the healthy identical twins of the sick children did fine.