Nutrition and Infectious disease

This document contains the three biological mechanisms of Zinc, Iron and Vitamin A of the course Nutrition & Infectious Diseases. The 3 associated papers below are elaborated. 1. Iron sequestration and Anemia of inflammation: Thomas Ganz and Elizabeta Nemeth. Semin. Hematol. 2009 46 (4): 387-393. 2. Roles of Retinoic acid in induction of immunity and immune tolerance. Kim CH. Endocrine Metabolic and Immune disorders-Drug targets 2008, 8,289-294 3. Mechanisms of action of zinc in acute...

This document contains all lectures and supplementary information of the course Nutrition & Infectious Diseases. The additional literature can be found at the end of each lecture. The discussions have been included and the lectures have been worked out in full.

this document contains: lecture 1: Nutrition and infectious diseases in the context of Health Sciences, 2: Malaria and anemia, 4: intestinal parasites and nutrition, 5: vaccination and vitamin A. Lecture 3 (The impact of nutrition and infection on child growth in Cambodia)is not incuded as this lecture was more about the difficulties encountered while during field work and was less informative, The document contains the written (powerpoint) and spoken text (recorded and worked out after lectur...

An extensive summary of all lectures extra explanation and elaborations of the (work) lecture where study designs / hypotheses / exposure / outcomes had to be devised.