ArticleMolecular nutrition & food research2016
Dietary exposure to aflatoxin and micronutrient status among young children from Guinea.
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- Association Between Aflatoxin Exposure and Haemoglobin, Zinc, and Vitamin A, C, and E Levels/Status: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Human Biomonitoring of Mycotoxins in Blood, Plasma and Serum in Recent Years: A Review.Toxins · 2020Pooled it
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- A Cross-Sectional Association Between Serum Aflatoxin and Micronutrient Status Among Children Aged 6-24 Months in Rural Tanzania.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Aflatoxin Exposure in Immunocompromised Patients: Current State and Future Perspectives.Toxins · 2025Review
- Aflatoxin exposure and mortality in acutely ill children: results from the CHAIN network cohort.BMJ global health · 2025Article
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- Provision of low-aflatoxin local complementary porridge flour reduced urinary aflatoxin biomarker in children aged 6-18 months in rural Tanzania.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
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- Prevalence of vitamin E inadequacy, dietary intake and sources of alpha-tocopherol, and predictors of alpha- and gamma-tocopherol status in adolescent girls in Central Mozambique.Journal of nutritional science · 2023Article
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- Mycotoxin Occurrence, Exposure and Health Implications in Infants and Young Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Perspective: Advancing Understanding of Population Nutrient-Health Relations via Metabolomics and Precision Phenotypes.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2019Article
- Environmental Health Research in Africa: Important Progress and Promising Opportunities.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Review
- Impaired growth in rural Gambian infants exposed to aflatoxin: a prospective cohort study.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Aflatoxin exposure assessed by aflatoxin albumin adduct biomarker in populations from six African countries: REVIEW ARTICLE.World mycotoxin journal · 2018Review
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Abstract
scopeAflatoxin exposure coincides with micronutrient deficiencies in developing countries. Animal feeding studies have postulated that aflatoxin exposure may be exacerbating micronutrient deficiencies. Evidence available in human subjects is limited and inconsistent. The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between aflatoxin exposure and micronutrient status among young Guinean children. METHODS AND
resultsA total of 305 children (28.8 ± 8.4 months) were recruited at groundnut harvest (rainy season), of which 288 were followed up 6 months later postharvest (dry season). Blood samples were collected at each visit. Aflatoxin-albumin adduct levels were measured by ELISA. Vitamin A, vitamin E and β-carotene concentrations were measured using HPLC methods. Zinc was measured by atomic absorption spectroscopy. Aflatoxin exposure and micronutrient deficiencies were prevalent in this population and were influenced by season, with levels increasing between harvest and postharvest. At harvest, children in the highest aflatoxin exposure group, compared to the lowest, were 1.98 (95%CI: 1.00, 3.92) and 3.56 (95%CI: 1.13, 11.15) times more likely to be zinc and vitamin A deficient.
conclusionAlthough children with high aflatoxin exposure levels were more likely to be zinc and vitamin A deficient, further research is necessary to determine a cause and effect relationship.
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