List of works - Ken Maleta

Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children

scientific article

Sialylated Milk Oligosaccharides Promote Microbiota-Dependent Growth in Models of Infant Undernutrition.

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Antibiotics as part of the management of severe acute malnutrition

scientific article

Home based therapy for severe malnutrition with ready-to-use food.

scientific article

Functional characterization of IgA-targeted bacterial taxa from undernourished Malawian children that produce diet-dependent enteropathy

scientific article

Complementary feeding with fortified spread and incidence of severe stunting in 6- to 18-month-old rural Malawians

scientific article published on July 2008

Comparison of real-time PCR and microscopy for malaria parasite detection in Malawian pregnant women.

scientific article

The impact of lipid-based nutrient supplement provision to pregnant women on newborn size in rural Malawi: A randomized controlled trial

scientific article

Distinct gut microbiota in southeastern African and northern European infants.

scientific article published on June 2012

Supplementation of Maternal Diets during Pregnancy and for 6 Months Postpartum and Infant Diets Thereafter with Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Does Not Promote Child Growth by 18 Months of Age in Rural Malawi: A Randomized Controlle

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

Effect of repeated treatment of pregnant women with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and azithromycin on preterm delivery in Malawi: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article

Supplementary feeding with fortified spreads results in higher recovery rates than with a corn/soy blend in moderately wasted children.

scientific article

Modifiers of the effect of maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation on stillbirth, birth outcomes, and infant mortality: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from 17 randomised trials in low-income and middle-income countries

scientific article published in November 2017

Childhood malnutrition and its predictors in rural Malawi.

scientific article published in October 2003

The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) recommendations on adolescent, preconception, and maternal nutrition: "Think Nutrition First".

scientific article published in October 2015

Sex differential effects of routine immunizations and childhood survival in rural Malawi

scientific article published in August 2006

A large-scale operational study of home-based therapy with ready-to-use therapeutic food in childhood malnutrition in Malawi

scientific article published in July 2007

Growth and Change in Blood Haemoglobin Concentration Among Underweight Malawian Infants Receiving Fortified Spreads for 12 Weeks

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of rifaximin, a nonabsorbable antibiotic, in the treatment of tropical enteropathy

scientific article published on 02 June 2009

Provision of 10-40 g/d Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements from 6 to 18 Months of Age Does Not Prevent Linear Growth Faltering in Malawi

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Postintervention growth of Malawian children who received 12-mo dietary complementation with a lipid-based nutrient supplement or maize-soy flour.

scientific article

Supplementary feeding of underweight, stunted Malawian children with a ready-to-use food.

scientific article published in February 2004

Seasonality of growth and the relationship between weight and height gain in children under three years of age in rural Malawi

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Determinants of linear growth and predictors of severe stunting during infancy in rural Malawi

scientific article published in January 2002

Effect of complementary feeding with lipid-based nutrient supplements and corn-soy blend on the incidence of stunting and linear growth among 6- to 18-month-old infants and children in rural Malawi

scientific article published on 25 June 2013

A novel fortified blended flour, corn-soy blend "plus-plus," is not inferior to lipid-based ready-to-use supplementary foods for the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in Malawian children.

scientific article published on 14 December 2011

An energy-dense complementary food is associated with a modest increase in weight gain when compared with a fortified porridge in Malawian children aged 6-18 months.

scientific article

Can Western developmental screening tools be modified for use in a rural Malawian setting?

scientific article

Children successfully treated for moderate acute malnutrition remain at risk for malnutrition and death in the subsequent year after recovery.

scientific article published on 19 December 2012

Perturbed zinc homeostasis in rural 3-5-y-old Malawian children is associated with abnormalities in intestinal permeability attributed to tropical enteropathy

scientific article published on June 2010

Acceptability of three novel lipid-based nutrient supplements among Malawian infants and their caregivers

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The effect of antenatal monthly sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine, alone or with azithromycin, on foetal and neonatal growth faltering in Malawi: a randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published on 22 February 2013

Breast milk intake is not reduced more by the introduction of energy dense complementary food than by typical infant porridge

scientific article published in July 2007

A ready-to-use therapeutic food containing 10% milk is less effective than one with 25% milk in the treatment of severely malnourished children.

scientific article

Timing of growth faltering in rural Malawi.

scientific article published on July 2003

Antibodies to chondroitin sulfate A-binding infected erythrocytes: dynamics and protection during pregnancy in women receiving intermittent preventive treatment

scientific article published in May 2010

Effects of maternal and child lipid-based nutrient supplements on infant development: a randomized trial in Malawi

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Environmental Enteric Dysfunction Includes a Broad Spectrum of Inflammatory Responses and Epithelial Repair Processes

scientific article

A lipid-based nutrient supplement but not corn-soy blend modestly increases weight gain among 6- to 18-month-old moderately underweight children in rural Malawi

scientific article published on 22 September 2010

A Combined Intervention of Zinc, Multiple Micronutrients, and Albendazole Does Not Ameliorate Environmental Enteric Dysfunction or Stunting in Rural Malawian Children in a Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial.

scientific article published on 2 November 2016

Height gain during early childhood is an important predictor of schooling and mathematics ability outcomes.

scientific article published on 24 March 2011

Epidemiology and predictors of infant morbidity in rural Malawi.

scientific article

Zinc or albendazole attenuates the progression of environmental enteropathy: a randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on 22 January 2014

Lipid-based nutrient supplements do not decrease breast milk intake of Malawian infants

scientific article published on 24 December 2013

Multiple micronutrient supplementation transiently ameliorates environmental enteropathy in Malawian children aged 12-35 months in a randomized controlled clinical trial

scientific article

Locally produced ready-to-use supplementary food is an effective treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in an operational setting

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

HIV prevalence in severely malnourished children admitted to nutrition rehabilitation units in Malawi: geographical & seasonal variations a cross-sectional study.

scientific article

The effect of monthly sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, alone or with azithromycin, on PCR-diagnosed malaria at delivery: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

The effect of dietary resistant starch type 2 on the microbiota and markers of gut inflammation in rural Malawi children.

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

The duration of diarrhea and fever is associated with growth faltering in rural Malawian children aged 6-18 months

scientific article

List of works by Ken Maleta

Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children

Sialylated Milk Oligosaccharides Promote Microbiota-Dependent Growth in Models of Infant Undernutrition.

Antibiotics as part of the management of severe acute malnutrition

Home based therapy for severe malnutrition with ready-to-use food.

Functional characterization of IgA-targeted bacterial taxa from undernourished Malawian children that produce diet-dependent enteropathy

Complementary feeding with fortified spread and incidence of severe stunting in 6- to 18-month-old rural Malawians

Comparison of real-time PCR and microscopy for malaria parasite detection in Malawian pregnant women.

The impact of lipid-based nutrient supplement provision to pregnant women on newborn size in rural Malawi: A randomized controlled trial

Distinct gut microbiota in southeastern African and northern European infants.

Supplementation of Maternal Diets during Pregnancy and for 6 Months Postpartum and Infant Diets Thereafter with Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Does Not Promote Child Growth by 18 Months of Age in Rural Malawi: A Randomized Controlle

Effect of repeated treatment of pregnant women with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and azithromycin on preterm delivery in Malawi: a randomized controlled trial

Supplementary feeding with fortified spreads results in higher recovery rates than with a corn/soy blend in moderately wasted children.

Modifiers of the effect of maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation on stillbirth, birth outcomes, and infant mortality: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from 17 randomised trials in low-income and middle-income countries

Childhood malnutrition and its predictors in rural Malawi.

The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) recommendations on adolescent, preconception, and maternal nutrition: "Think Nutrition First".

Sex differential effects of routine immunizations and childhood survival in rural Malawi

A large-scale operational study of home-based therapy with ready-to-use therapeutic food in childhood malnutrition in Malawi

Growth and Change in Blood Haemoglobin Concentration Among Underweight Malawian Infants Receiving Fortified Spreads for 12 Weeks

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of rifaximin, a nonabsorbable antibiotic, in the treatment of tropical enteropathy

Provision of 10-40 g/d Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements from 6 to 18 Months of Age Does Not Prevent Linear Growth Faltering in Malawi

Postintervention growth of Malawian children who received 12-mo dietary complementation with a lipid-based nutrient supplement or maize-soy flour.

Supplementary feeding of underweight, stunted Malawian children with a ready-to-use food.

Seasonality of growth and the relationship between weight and height gain in children under three years of age in rural Malawi

Determinants of linear growth and predictors of severe stunting during infancy in rural Malawi

Effect of complementary feeding with lipid-based nutrient supplements and corn-soy blend on the incidence of stunting and linear growth among 6- to 18-month-old infants and children in rural Malawi

A novel fortified blended flour, corn-soy blend "plus-plus," is not inferior to lipid-based ready-to-use supplementary foods for the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in Malawian children.

An energy-dense complementary food is associated with a modest increase in weight gain when compared with a fortified porridge in Malawian children aged 6-18 months.

Can Western developmental screening tools be modified for use in a rural Malawian setting?

Children successfully treated for moderate acute malnutrition remain at risk for malnutrition and death in the subsequent year after recovery.

Perturbed zinc homeostasis in rural 3-5-y-old Malawian children is associated with abnormalities in intestinal permeability attributed to tropical enteropathy

Acceptability of three novel lipid-based nutrient supplements among Malawian infants and their caregivers

The effect of antenatal monthly sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine, alone or with azithromycin, on foetal and neonatal growth faltering in Malawi: a randomised controlled trial.

Breast milk intake is not reduced more by the introduction of energy dense complementary food than by typical infant porridge

A ready-to-use therapeutic food containing 10% milk is less effective than one with 25% milk in the treatment of severely malnourished children.

Timing of growth faltering in rural Malawi.

Antibodies to chondroitin sulfate A-binding infected erythrocytes: dynamics and protection during pregnancy in women receiving intermittent preventive treatment

Effects of maternal and child lipid-based nutrient supplements on infant development: a randomized trial in Malawi

Environmental Enteric Dysfunction Includes a Broad Spectrum of Inflammatory Responses and Epithelial Repair Processes

A lipid-based nutrient supplement but not corn-soy blend modestly increases weight gain among 6- to 18-month-old moderately underweight children in rural Malawi

A Combined Intervention of Zinc, Multiple Micronutrients, and Albendazole Does Not Ameliorate Environmental Enteric Dysfunction or Stunting in Rural Malawian Children in a Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial.

Height gain during early childhood is an important predictor of schooling and mathematics ability outcomes.

Epidemiology and predictors of infant morbidity in rural Malawi.

Zinc or albendazole attenuates the progression of environmental enteropathy: a randomized controlled trial.

Lipid-based nutrient supplements do not decrease breast milk intake of Malawian infants

Multiple micronutrient supplementation transiently ameliorates environmental enteropathy in Malawian children aged 12-35 months in a randomized controlled clinical trial

Locally produced ready-to-use supplementary food is an effective treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in an operational setting

HIV prevalence in severely malnourished children admitted to nutrition rehabilitation units in Malawi: geographical & seasonal variations a cross-sectional study.

The effect of monthly sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, alone or with azithromycin, on PCR-diagnosed malaria at delivery: a randomized controlled trial

The effect of dietary resistant starch type 2 on the microbiota and markers of gut inflammation in rural Malawi children.

The duration of diarrhea and fever is associated with growth faltering in rural Malawian children aged 6-18 months