Loading...
Host nutrition and infectious disease: an ecological view
Smith, Val H. Jones, Tyrees P., II Smith, Marilyn S.
Smith, Val H.
Jones, Tyrees P., II
Smith, Marilyn S.
Citations
Altmetric:
Abstract
Nutrition is typically discussed in terms of maintaining a proper diet and avoiding nutrient deficiency diseases. However, nutrition can also be viewed from an ecological standpoint: mammalian hosts and their pathogens share a wide range of resource needs that are required to support normal metabolism and growth. The development of an infectious disease within a host involves the processes of invasion and resource consumption. Competition for growth-limiting resources can potentially occur between the invading pathogen and the cellular components of the host. Experimental studies confirm that nutrients can have profound effects on a host's response to an infection, and taking an ecological view of host nutrition may help to further inform biomedical practice.
Description
Date
2005-06-01
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Ecological Society of America
Files
Loading...
SmithVal_EF_3(5)268.pdf
Adobe PDF, 1.32 MB
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Keywords
Citation
Val H. Smith, Tyrees P. Jones II, and Marilyn S. Smith 2005. Host nutrition and infectious disease: an ecological view. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3: 268–274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/1540-9295(2005)003[0268:HNAIDA]2.0.CO;2