Nutrition, immunity and infection
Nutrition, immunity and infection [electronic resource]
Edited by P. Shetty.
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- Wallingford UK CABI 2010
- 206pp.;
- CABI Books .
- CABI Books .
Infectious diseases are an important cause of malnutrition. Recurrent infections increase the risk of malnutrition while poor nutritional status results in lowered immune status and predisposes to infectious disease thus propagating the vicious cycle of infection and malnutrition. The nutrition-infection-immunity axis is crucial for both developed and developing countries and is now a central feature of many nutrition and infectious disease courses.Bringing together nutrition and immunology, Nutrition, Immunity and Infections covers the topic in an accessible format for all students of nutrition, medicine and public health. Through his work at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the FAO's Food and Nutrition Division and his current post at the University of Southampton, Professor Shetty has built a reputation to match his wealth of experience in the relationship between nutrition and susceptibility to infection.
9781845937249
10.1079/9780851995311.0000 doi
food hypersensitivity eukaryotes food allergies animals food intolerance axerophthol undernutrition zinc Orthoretrovirinae man malnutrition Mycobacterium tuberculosis autoimmune diseases bacterium Mycobacteriaceae infections Actinobacteridae prokaryotes Bacteria Homo viruses AIDS scouring nutrition Chordata lung diseases nutritional status Human immunodeficiency viruses tuberculosis retinol Lentivirus acquired immune deficiency syndrome immunity vitamin A immunology Actinomycetales viral infections iron RNA Reverse Transcribing Viruses diarrhea nutrient excesses nutrients communicable diseases prebiotics mammals cancers human diseases probiotics respiratory diseases vertebrates diarrhoea immune system Mycobacterium vitamin A alcohol vitamin A1 viral diseases infectious diseases Actinobacteria Retroviridae neoplasms nutrient deficiencies Corynebacterineae nutritional state Hominidae primates
Infectious diseases are an important cause of malnutrition. Recurrent infections increase the risk of malnutrition while poor nutritional status results in lowered immune status and predisposes to infectious disease thus propagating the vicious cycle of infection and malnutrition. The nutrition-infection-immunity axis is crucial for both developed and developing countries and is now a central feature of many nutrition and infectious disease courses.Bringing together nutrition and immunology, Nutrition, Immunity and Infections covers the topic in an accessible format for all students of nutrition, medicine and public health. Through his work at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the FAO's Food and Nutrition Division and his current post at the University of Southampton, Professor Shetty has built a reputation to match his wealth of experience in the relationship between nutrition and susceptibility to infection.
9781845937249
10.1079/9780851995311.0000 doi
food hypersensitivity eukaryotes food allergies animals food intolerance axerophthol undernutrition zinc Orthoretrovirinae man malnutrition Mycobacterium tuberculosis autoimmune diseases bacterium Mycobacteriaceae infections Actinobacteridae prokaryotes Bacteria Homo viruses AIDS scouring nutrition Chordata lung diseases nutritional status Human immunodeficiency viruses tuberculosis retinol Lentivirus acquired immune deficiency syndrome immunity vitamin A immunology Actinomycetales viral infections iron RNA Reverse Transcribing Viruses diarrhea nutrient excesses nutrients communicable diseases prebiotics mammals cancers human diseases probiotics respiratory diseases vertebrates diarrhoea immune system Mycobacterium vitamin A alcohol vitamin A1 viral diseases infectious diseases Actinobacteria Retroviridae neoplasms nutrient deficiencies Corynebacterineae nutritional state Hominidae primates