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Nutrition, immunity, and infection / Prakash Shetty.
Holman Biotech Commons RA645.N87 S54 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shetty, Prakash S.
- Series:
- Modular texts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Malnutrition--Immunological aspects.
- Malnutrition.
- Communicable diseases--Nutritional aspects.
- Communicable diseases.
- Immunity--Nutritional aspects.
- Immunity.
- Malnutrition--complications.
- Communicable Diseases--complications.
- Communicable Diseases--immunology.
- Malnutrition--immunology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Malnutrition--complications.
- Communicable Diseases--complications.
- Communicable Diseases--immunology.
- Immunity.
- Malnutrition--immunology.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Nutrition, immunity & infection
- Place of Publication:
- Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, Mass. : CABI, [2010]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780851995311
- 0851995314
- OCLC:
- 477051756
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