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dc.contributor.authorSmith, Val H.
dc.contributor.authorJones, Tyrees P., II
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Marilyn S.
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-23T19:47:06Z
dc.date.available2015-02-23T19:47:06Z
dc.date.issued2005-06-01
dc.identifier.citationVal 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;2en_US
dc.identifier.issn1540-9295
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/16754
dc.description.abstractNutrition 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.en_US
dc.publisherEcological Society of Americaen_US
dc.rightsCopyright by the Ecological Society of America
dc.titleHost nutrition and infectious disease: an ecological viewen_US
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorSmith, Val H.
kusw.kudepartmentEcology and Evolutionary Biologyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1890/1540-9295(2005)003[0268:HNAIDA]2.0.CO;2
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2449-890X
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher version
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