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Lower incidence of respiratory infections among iron-deficient children in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Objective: We posited a trade-off in iron nutrition, with iron deficiency decreasing risk for infection by depriving infectious agents of iron while increasing risk for infection by compromising immune protection. We described associations between iron deficiency and prevalent and incident infectiou...

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Udgivet i:Evol Med Public Health
Main Authors: Wander, Katherine, Shell-Duncan, Bettina, Brindle, Eleanor
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Oxford University Press 2017
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5570096/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28852503
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/emph/eox010
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