Per Ashorn

Research interests

Publications

• WHO's essential medicines and AWaRe: recommendations on first- and second-choice antibiotics for empiric treatment of clinical infections

  Clinical Microbiology and Infection · 2024 · 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.02.003

• Small vulnerable newborns—big potential for impact

  The Lancet · 2023 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(23)00354-9

• Early-childhood linear growth faltering in low- and middle-income countries

  Nature · 2023 · 10.1038/s41586-023-06418-5

• Causes and consequences of child growth faltering in low-resource settings

  Nature · 2023 · 10.1038/s41586-023-06501-x

• Bacterial communities found in placental tissues are associated with severe chorioamnionitis and adverse birth outcomes

  PLoS ONE · 2017 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0180167

• 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

  The Lancet Global Health · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(17)30371-6

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

  Science · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad3311

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

  Cell · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.01.024

• Small-quantity, lipid-based nutrient supplements provided to women during pregnancy and 6 mo postpartum and to their infants from 6 mo of age increase the mean attained length of 18-mo-old children in semi-urban Ghana: a randomized controlled trial,

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2016 · 10.3945/ajcn.116.134692

• Lipid-based nutrient supplement increases the birth size of infants of primiparous women in Ghana

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2015 · 10.3945/ajcn.114.091546

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

  Science Translational Medicine · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa4877

• 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 Controlled Trial

  Journal of Nutrition · 2015 · 10.3945/jn.114.207225

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

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2014 · 10.3945/ajcn.114.088617

• Considerations in developing lipid‐based nutrient supplements for prevention of undernutrition: experience from the I nternational L ipid‐ B ased N utrient S upplements ( iLiNS ) P roject

  Maternal and Child Nutrition · 2013 · 10.1111/mcn.12049

• Risk of childhood undernutrition related to small-for-gestational age and preterm birth in low- and middle-income countries

  International Journal of Epidemiology · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyt109

• Intermittent Preventive Therapy for Malaria During Pregnancy Using 2 vs 3 or More Doses of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine and Risk of Low Birth Weight in Africa

  JAMA · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.216231

• Distinct Gut Microbiota in Southeastern African and Northern European Infants

  Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition · 2012 · 10.1097/mpg.0b013e318249039c

• Effect of Repeated Treatment of Pregnant Women with Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine and Azithromycin on Preterm Delivery in Malawi: A Randomized Controlled Trial

  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2010 · 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0264

• Complementary Feeding With Fortified Spread and Incidence of Severe Stunting in 6- to 18-Month-Old Rural Malawians

  Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine · 2008 · 10.1001/archpedi.162.7.619

• Comparison of home-based therapy with ready-to-use therapeutic food with standard therapy in the treatment of malnourished Malawian children: a controlled, clinical effectiveness trial

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2005 · 10.1093/ajcn/81.4.864

• Home‐based therapy with ready‐to‐use therapeutic food is of benefit to malnourished, HIV‐infected Malawian children

  Acta Paediatrica · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2005.tb01895.x

• Home-Based Treatment of Malnourished Malawian Children with Locally Produced or Imported Ready-to-Use Food

  Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition · 2004 · 10.1097/00005176-200408000-00003

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

  Acta Paediatrica · 2002 · 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2002.tb02835.x

• Human immunodeficiency virus envelope glycoprotein/CD4-mediated fusion of nonprimate cells with human cells

  Journal of Virology · 1990 · 10.1128/jvi.64.5.2149-2156.1990

• An inhibitor of the protease blocks maturation of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses and spread of infection.

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1990 · 10.1073/pnas.87.19.7472

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