dc.contributor.author | Smith, Val H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Jones, Tyrees P., II | |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, Marilyn S. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-23T19:47:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-02-23T19:47:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-06-01 | |
dc.identifier.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 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1540-9295 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/16754 | |
dc.description.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. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Ecological Society of America | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright by the Ecological Society of America | |
dc.title | Host nutrition and infectious disease: an ecological view | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Smith, Val H. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1890/1540-9295(2005)003[0268:HNAIDA]2.0.CO;2 | |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2449-890X | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |