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Nutritional Immunology: A Multi-Dimensional Approach
1 Dec 2011
Abstract excerpt
Nutrition is critical to immune defence and resistance to pathogens, with consequences that affect the health, welfare and reproductive success of individual organisms [1,2], and also has profound ecological and evolutionary implications [3,4,5]. In humans, under-nutrition, notably of protein, is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases, particularly in the developing world [1]....
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