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Nutrition, immunity and infection /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shetty, Prakash S.
Corporate Author: C.A.B. International
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., [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.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.