2020
Core Principles in Nutrition: Nutrient Needs, Metabolism, and Potential Influences on Infectious Diseases
Barffour M, Humphries D. Core Principles in Nutrition: Nutrient Needs, Metabolism, and Potential Influences on Infectious Diseases. Nutrition And Health 2020, 23-82. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-56913-6_2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDisease outcomeInfectious diseasesImpact of undernutritionInfectious disease outcomesProtein-calorie deficitsWorld Health Organization monographElevated riskMicronutrient interventionsImmune systemNutritional statusSpecific macronutrientsInfectionMalnutritionDiseaseOutcomesMetabolismCurrent understandingPotential pathwaysUndernutritionMortalityPotential influencePublic Health and Clinical Implications of Nutrition-Infection Interactions
Vermund S, Scott M, Humphries D. Public Health and Clinical Implications of Nutrition-Infection Interactions. Nutrition And Health 2020, 459-481. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-56913-6_16.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchInfectious agentsNutritional statusClinical implicationsRole of obesityDefinitive risk factorsSeverity of malariaSuboptimal nutritional statusMajor infectious agentsHealth of personsClinical courseClinical managementRisk factorsClinical nutritionHigh mortalityInfectious diseasesCOVID-19ObesityPublic healthInfectionDiseaseSeverityNutritionHealthBacterial diseasesStatusPathways Linking Nutritional Status and Infectious Disease: Causal and Conceptual Frameworks
Humphries D, Scott M, Vermund S. Pathways Linking Nutritional Status and Infectious Disease: Causal and Conceptual Frameworks. Nutrition And Health 2020, 3-22. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-56913-6_1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHost nutritional statusNutritional statusInfectious diseasesExperience of infectionImpact of nutritionInfluence of nutritionImmunological responseDrug interventionEpidemiological studiesHost responseDisease severityInfectionMechanisms of causalityDiseaseMicrobial pathogenesisFuture studiesStatusUnderstanding of causationNutritionPathogensSame populationPathogenesisMalnutritionSeverityResponse
1994
Increased CD4+ T cell‐dependent anti‐erythrocyte antibody levels following the onset of parasite egg production in Schistosoma mansoni infected mice
HUMPHRIES D, VELLA A, PEARCE E. Increased CD4+ T cell‐dependent anti‐erythrocyte antibody levels following the onset of parasite egg production in Schistosoma mansoni infected mice. Parasite Immunology 1994, 16: 469-477. PMID: 7838596, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3024.1994.tb00375.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInfected miceHemoglobin levelsSchistosome eggsNormal miceAnti-red blood cell antibodiesLower hemoglobin levelsChronic infectious diseasePlasma hemoglobin levelsParasite egg productionMembranes of RBCsIncreased CD4Cell antibodiesAntibody levelsSchistosomiasis mansoniAntibody responseSurface antigenAntibody productionPatent infectionsInfectious diseasesSchistosoma mansoniEgg productionMiceAnemiaAntibodiesCD4