Nutrition, immunity, and infection - Shetty, Prakash S. (Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010)
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 -- 10.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
Keywords: Malnutrition -- complications; Communicable Diseases -- complications; Communicable diseases -- Immunology; Immunity; Malnutrition -- immunology