Introduction Congenital glucose galactose malabsorption (CGGM) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, which presents as a protracted diarrhoea in early neonatal life. It is due to a defect in sodium coupled transport of glucose and galac­ tose in the enterocyte (1). Diarrhoea in CGGM is osmotic, caused by accumulation of unabsorbed glucose and ga­ lactose in the intestine (2), which results in...

© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2014 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The consumption of milk and dairy products varies considerably in different regions of the world. Indeed, according to the statistics of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in 2007 the consumption of milk and dairy products averaged 240 kg and 360 kg per capita in the UK and Sweden, respectiv...

Physiological digestion and absorption of nutrients within the gastrointestinal tract requires a complex interaction between motor, secretory, digestive, and absorptive functions that is vulnerable to a multitude of potential disturbances which may lead to global or specific malabsorption syndromes. Potential pathomechanisms that are illustrated in this article include insufficient mechanical b...

Malabsorption syndrome (MAS) is a multifactorial disease that causes intestinal disorders in broilers due to infection of the gastrointestinal tract with different infectious agents. The exact aetiology is unknown, although several viruses are isolated from MAS affected chickens. None of these isolated infectious agents alone inducted the malabsorption syndrome. MAS in broilers is characterised...