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