| 1. | Other conditions which can resemble tropical sprue need to be differentiated.
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| 2. | Environmental enteropathy is a less severe, subclinical condition similar to tropical sprue.
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| 3. | They were able to use liver extract therapy to treat tropical sprue successfully.
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| 4. | However, his main interest was Tropical sprue.
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| 5. | If they did develop tropical sprue, he could treat it with liver extract.
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| 6. | Tropical sprue is largely limited to within about 30 degrees north and south of the equator.
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| 7. | They showed that tropical sprue was caused by intestinal impermeability to this and other hematopoietic factors in food.
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| 8. | Through his researches, pellagra in the southern United States and tropical sprue in Cuba and Puerto Rico have been virtually eliminated.
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| 9. | The villous atrophy seen on biopsy may also be due to unrelated causes, such as tropical sprue, giardiasis and radiation enteritis.
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| 10. | Because of the effects of anemia and the suspicion that tropical sprue was related to diet, Rhoads experimentally controlled patients'diets.
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