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 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 A nutritionally deficient environment during fetal life may impair an infant's
ability to mount an optimal immune response to vaccination. We examined the impact of …

Abstract Background In rural Gambia, rates of malnutrition and infection are higher during
the annual rainy/'hungry'season (June–October) in comparison to the dry/'harvest'season …

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

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 …

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 …

Human immune system is a complex and efficient defence system, consisting of an
integrated set of cells and chemical mediators, which protects from external insults …

The study determined the prevalence of acute respiratory infections and diarrhoea among
sub-Saharan African children. It also examined if there was any significant morbidity benefit …

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