Nutrition and Parasitism

Solomons, Noel W.

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“…In this relation, nutritional deficiency decreases the infectivity of pathogens whereas nutrient sufficiency or excess makes the infection more frequent in or dangerous for the host. Iron is the nutrient that exhibits an antagonistic malnutrition-infection interaction (Solomons, 1984).…”

Section: The Interaction Of Nutrition and Infectionmentioning

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“…Only a handful of articles treated this topic before 1980 (see Layrisse & Vargas, 1975;Rosenberg, Solomons & Schneider, 1977). In the past decade, a number of review articles have covered different aspects of these issues (see Solomons & Keusch, 1981;Crouch, 1982;Rosenberg & Bowman, 1982;Thompson, 1983;Solomons, 1984;Keusch & Solomons, 1985;Crompton, 1986;Tomkins, 1986;Taren & Crompton, 1989).…”

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Pathways to the impairment of human nutritional status by gastrointestinal pathogens

Solomons¹

1993

Parasitology

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Gastrointestinal pathogens are of three varieties, those that can, and often do, take the life of the host, those that infect transiently and rarely are life-threatening, and those (parasites) that establish a relatively prolonged residence or colonization of the host's alimentary tract. In the case of the second form, if infections are recurrent, both catabolic effects during the episode and failure to digest foods and/or absorb nutrients results. Similarly, catabolic wastage through activation of the acute phase response, and interference with the host's acquisition of nutrients by maldigestion, malabsorption, intestinal losses and competition with the parasite burden can impair growth and nutrition with helminthic infections. Growth and nutrition with respect to all of the macronutrients and virtually all of the micronutrients have been documented to be adversely affected by gastrointestinal pathogens. For its burgeoning importance as a worldwide health problem, both with the HIV virus as a direct intestinal pathogen and with the opportunistic gut infections occurring in the immunocompromised host, AIDS represents the emerging context of the impairment of nutritional status by intestinal pathogens.

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Section: The Interaction Of Nutrition and Infectionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Pathways to the impairment of human nutritional status by gastrointestinal pathogens

Solomons¹

1993

Parasitology

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INCAP Studies of Nutrition and Infection

Scrimshaw

2010

Food Nutr Bull

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As soon as the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP) began to study the poor nutritional status and stunting of children in the rural villages of Central America, it was apparent that infections, particularly diarrheas, were also a serious problem. Studies of kwashiorkor indicated that infections precipitated kwashiorkor and anemia in children who were already malnourished. In the 1940s there was almost no suggestion in the literature of a relation between nutrition and infection. INCAP gradually identified the mechanisms by which any infection worsens nutritional status and demonstrated that infections were more severe and more often fatal in malnourished children and adults. These studies ultimately led to the 1968 World Health Organization (WHO) monograph "Interactions of nutrition and infection" and widespread recognition by public health workers of the importance of this relationship for morbidity and mortality in poorly nourished populations.

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Nutrition and Parasitism

Cited by 2 publications

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Pathways to the impairment of human nutritional status by gastrointestinal pathogens

Pathways to the impairment of human nutritional status by gastrointestinal pathogens

INCAP Studies of Nutrition and Infection

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