Nutrition, immunity, and infection
By: Prakash Shetty.
Series: Modular texts; Modular texts
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780851995311
Subjects: Malnutrition -- Immunological aspects; Communicable diseases -- Nutritional aspects; Immunity -- Nutritional aspects; Malnutrition -- complications; Communicable Diseases -- complications; Communicable Diseases -- immunology; Immunity; Malnutrition -- immunology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nutrition, immunity, and infection; title: Immune systems : the defence mechanisms of the body; title: Role of nutrients in immune functions; title: Undernutrition, host defence mechanisms, and risk of infection; title: Infections and undernutrition : causation and consequences; title: Vitamin A deficiency and risk of infection; title: Iron status and risk of infection; title: Zinc deficiency and infections; title: Nutrition, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis; title: 10.nutrition, immunity, and infections of infants and children; title: Maternal nutrition, infections, and birth outcomes; title: Nutrition, immunity, and infections in the elderly; title: Nutrition, immunity, and chronic diseases; title: Probiotics, prebiotics, and immunity; title: Food allergy.