Title: A Prospective Study of Growth and Biomarkers of Exposure to Aflatoxin and Fumonisin during Early Childhood in Tanzania

Conclusions: Exposure to fumonisin alone, or co-exposure with aflatoxins may contribute to child growth impairment. This EHP Advance Publication article has been peer-reviewed, revised, and accepted for publication. EHP Advance Publication articles are completely citable using the DOI number assigned to the article. This document will be replaced with the copyedited and formatted version as soon as it is available. Through the DOI number used in the citation, you will be able to access this document at each stage of the publication process. Citation: Shirima CP, Kimanya ME, Routledge MN, Srey C, Kinabo JL, Humpf HU, Wild CP, Tu YK, Gong YY. A Prospective Study of Growth and Biomarkers of Exposure to Aflatoxin and Fumonisin during Early Childhood in Tanzania. Environ Health Perspect; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1408097. Received: 7 January 2014 Accepted: 16 October 2014 Advance Publication: 17 October 2014 Supplemental Material (252 KB) After Advance Publication of this article, Shirima et al. discovered errors in the models used for analyses of the joint effects of aflatoxin and fumonisin. After they ran the corrected joint-effects models, it became clear that the data were not sufficient to produce interpretable results. Therefore, the authors removed the joint-effects analyses from their manuscript, including information in the Abstract, “Materials and Methods,” and “Results.” Table 5 was also removed, but the main effects of aflatoxins have been added t...
Source: EHP Research - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Children's Health Source Type: research