Nutrition, immunity and infection /

• Main Author: Shetty, Prakash S., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
• Series: Modular texts.
• Subjects: Malnutrition > Immunological aspects.; Communicable diseases > Nutritional aspects.; Immunity > Nutritional aspects.; Malnutrition > complications.; Communicable Diseases > complications.; Communicable Diseases > immunology.; Immunity.; Malnutrition > immunology.; Other Produce.; Human Immunology and Allergology, (New March 2000); Physiology of Human Nutrition.; Nutrition related Disorders and Therapeutic Nutrition.; Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000); Man.; Mycobacterium tuberculosis.; Acquired immune deficiency syndrome.; Autoimmune diseases.; Diarrhoea.; Food allergies.; Food intolerance.; Human diseases.; Human immunodeficiency viruses.; Immune system.; Immunology.; Infections.; Infectious diseases.; Iron.; Malnutrition.; Neoplasms.; Nutrient deficiencies.; Nutrient excesses.; Nutrients.; Nutrition.; Nutritional state.; Prebiotics.; Probiotics.; Respiratory diseases.; Retinol.; Tuberculosis.; Undernutrition.; Zinc.; Electronic books.
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Much evidence suggests the relationship of malnutrition and infection. With the increasing understanding of the immune system and its functions to protect hosts from infections, the part played by the nutritional status of individuals and the role of specific nutrients in this process are increasing...

Table of Contents:

• Nutrition, immunity, and infection
• Immune systems : the defence mechanisms of the body
• Role of nutrients in immune functions
• Undernutrition, host defence mechanisms, and risk of infection
• Infections and undernutrition : causation and consequences
• Vitamin A deficiency and risk of infection
• Iron status and risk of infection
• Zinc deficiency and infections
• Nutrition, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis
• Nutrition, immunity, and infections of infants and children
• Maternal nutrition, infections, and birth outcomes
• Nutrition, immunity, and infections in the elderly
• Nutrition, immunity, and chronic diseases
• Probiotics, prebiotics, and immunity
• Food allergy.