Vaccines can prevent infectious diseases, but their efficacy varies, and factors impacting
vaccine effectiveness remain unclear. Iron deficiency is the most common nutrient …

Vaccination programmes are critically important to suppress the burden of infectious
diseases, saving countless lives globally, as emphasised by the current COVID-19 …

Iron is required for many biochemical reactions of immune and non-immune cells, and
pathogens. Iron deficiency remains a worldwide public health problem in children and …

Iron is essential for all forms of life except perhaps for the lactic acid bacteria.'It is an
essential component of many enzymes and cofactors that carry out key metabolic processes …

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 …

Iron is an essential micronutrient for both microbial pathogens and their mammalian hosts.
Changes in iron availability and distribution have significant effects on pathogen virulence …

Iron homeostasis is critical for human health, because both too little and too much iron may
have severe clinical consequences. No other element can replace iron as component of …

Nutrition is a critical determinant of immunocompetence and risk of illness. The critical role of
nutrition in modulation of immune responses is based on physiological considerations. In …

The influence of iron on immune function has been long appreciated. However, the
molecular basis for this interaction is less well understood. Recently, there have been …

The control over iron availability is crucial under homeostatic conditions and even more in
the case of an infection. This results from diverse properties of iron: first, iron is an important …