Sight and Life Magazine 1/2011

SIGHT AND LIFE | VOL. 25 (1) | 2011 IRON FORTIFICATION – NEW REVELATIONS? 4949log number bacteria / g fecesincreased (Figure 4). The authors used a more sensitive assaythan that described above, in which the median calprotectin concentrationsin healthy persons was 25 μg/g 29 or below a cut-off of50 μg/g. 26 Hence, the calprotectin concentration in the childrenwho received iron, viz. 75 μg/g feces, indicated evidence of marfigure1: Profile of fecal bacteria in Ivorian childrenbefore iron supplementation121086420Total countsBacteroidesEnterobacteriaBifidobacteriaLactobacilliColumns are means of the log number of gene copies of cell numbersof bacteria indicated by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR)on baseline fecal DNA samples from Ivorian children (n = 59). All countswere significantly different from each other (one factor ANOVA with posthoc ‘t’ tests; P < 0.02). Modified from reference 3ginal intestinal inflammation. Furthermore, the authors found acorrelation between the changes in calprotectin and the changesin numbers of enterobacteria (r = 0.32, P