Nada Moustafa

Acute and Chronic Giardiasis, Child Growth, Nutritional Status, and the IGF-1 Axis: A Critical Narrative Review

Ashraf Soliman, Nada Moustafa, Fawzia Alyafei, Nada Alaaraj, Noor Hamed & Shayma Ahmed · Asian Journal of Pediatric Research · 2026

Giardiasis in childhood ranges from self-limited gastroenteritis to persistent, recurrent, or clinically silent intestinal infection. Its contribution to growth faltering remains difficult to isolate because exposure is concentrated in settings where dietary insufficiency, repeat...