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Parasitic infection and chronic energy deficiency in adults

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

P. S. Shetty  and
N. Shetty
P. S. Shetty
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Centre, Department of Physiology and Department of Microbiology, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore – 560 034, India
N. Shetty
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Centre, Department of Physiology and Department of Microbiology, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore – 560 034, India
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Interactions between infection and nutrition have been well recognized for several years now since they contribute directly to the health of individuals and communities. Malnourished individuals are specially prone to developing infections while infections themselves can lead to profound changes in the nutritional status of the individual. Health workers in developing countries in the tropics have long recognized the mutually aggravating interactions of malnutrition and infection. The importance of this synergistic relationship between infection and nu-tritional status has been studied extensively in the case of young children. The nutritional status of a young child is a critical determinant of both c morbidity and mortality resulting from a wide range of infections: bacterial, viral, or parasitic. Chandra (1983), in his review on the relationship of nutrition, immunity and infection has categorized the wide range of infectious agents (bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic) into those that are definitely, variably or minimally influenced by the nutritional status of the child.

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Parasitology , Volume 107 , supplement S1: Human nutrition and parasitic infection , January 1993 , pp. S159 - S167
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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