“…Infection is more prevalent in this disease than in the rest of the population (Scrimshaw et al, 1960), and there is evidence of an immune deficiency state in kwashiorkor. Brown and Katz (1965), in Uganda, noted that the serum immunoglobulin concentration in kwashiorkor was severely depressed, whereas Najjar et al (1969) observed high serum IgG, IgA, and IgM in marasmic infants with no clinical evidence of kwashiorkor.…”