Background Exposure to a nutritionally deficient environment during fetal life and early
infancy may adversely alter the ontogeny of the immune system and affect an infant's ability …

Background Recent observational research indicates that immune development may be
programmed by nutritional exposures early in life. Such findings require replication from …

Background In 2010, more than six million children in sub-Saharan Africa did not receive the
full series of three doses of the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine by one year of age. An …

Background: Iron deficiency may impair adaptive immunity and is common among African
infants at time of vaccination. Whether iron deficiency impairs vaccine response and whether …

Objective To investigate delays in first and third dose diphtheria–tetanus–pertussis (DTP1
and DTP3) vaccination in low-birth-weight infants in Ghana, and the associated …

Background: Recently, researchers have considered the fetal and infant origins of several
adult cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, but the implications of early events for immune …

Background Delayed vaccination increases the time infants are at risk for acquiring vaccine-
preventable diseases. Factors associated with incomplete vaccination are relatively well …

Background There are worrying indications that diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine
has negative non-specific effects for females. We previously found, in a trial of early-Bacillus …

Jones KDJ, Berkley JA, Warner JO. Perinatal nutrition and immunity to infection. Pediatr
Allergy Immunol 2010: 21: 564–576.© 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S Epidemiological data …

To systematically review the association between maternal nutritional status in pregnancy
and infant immune response to childhood vaccines. We reviewed literature on maternal …