title: Fighting undernutrition: don't forget the bugs.
abstract: Severe acute malnutrition is a major cause of child death in developing countries. In a recent study, Smith et al. (2013) monitored a large twin cohort in Malawi to unveil a causal relationship between gut microbiota and weight loss in undernutrition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, P.O. Box 226, Reading RG6 6AP, UK. s.p.claus@reading.ac.uk
authors.forename: Sandrine Paule
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Claus