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OverviewThis comprehensive and user-friendly volume focuses on the intersection between the fields of nutrition and infectious disease. It highlights the importance of nutritional status in infectious disease outcomes, and the need to recognize the role that nutrition plays in altering the risk of exposure and susceptibility to infection, the severity of the disease, and the effectiveness of treatment. Split into four parts, section one begins with a conceptual model linking nutritional status and infectious diseases, followed by primers on nutrition and immune function, that can serve as resources for students, researchers and practitioners. Section two provides accessible overviews of major categories of pathogens and is intended to be used as antecedents of pathogen-focused subsequent chapters, as well as to serve as discrete educational resources for students, researchers, and practitioners. The third section includes five in-depth case studies on specific infectious diseases where nutrition-infection interactions have been extensively explored: diarrheal and enteric disease, HIV and tuberculosis, arboviruses, malaria, and soil-transmitted helminths. The final section addresses cross-cutting topics such as drug-nutrient interactions, co-infections, and nutrition, infection, and climate change and then concludes by consolidating relevant clinical and public health approaches to addressing infection in the context of nutrition, and thus providing a sharp focus on the clinical relevance of the intersection between nutrition and infection Written by experts in the field, Nutrition and Infectious Diseases will be a go to resource and guide for immunologists, clinical pathologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, nutritionists, and all health care professionals managing and treating patients with infectious diseases. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Debbie L. Humphries , Marilyn E. Scott , Sten H. VermundPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 1.198kg ISBN: 9783030569129ISBN 10: 3030569128 Pages: 492 Publication Date: 11 December 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsThe book is intended for a sophisticated nutrition audience with basic understanding of nutrition principles, underlying over- and under-nutrition, and the consequences of malnutrition. ... This book meets expectations by providing credible, state-of-the-art data and current knowledge, while also a realistic understanding of specific conditions. (Linda Van Horn, Doody's Book Reviews, May 7, 2021) Author InformationDebbie Humphries Yale School of Public HealthNew Haven, CT 06520USA Marilyn ScottInstitute of ParasitologyMcGill University Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC H9X 3V9Canada Sten H. VermundYale School of Public HealthNew Haven, CT 06520 Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |