Nutritional status and vitamin A and zinc levels in patients with kala-azar in Piauí, Brazil

Abstract INTRODUCTION: Malnutrition and kala-azar (or visceral leishmaniasis) are significant public health problems in different parts of the world. Immunity and susceptibility to infectious and parasitic diseases are directly linked to the host’s nutritional state, but little is known about the in...

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Published in:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Main Authors: Mísia Joyner de Sousa Dias Monteiro, Maria Nauside Pessoa da Silva, Adriana de Azevedo Paiva, Dilina do Nascimento Marreiro, Liania Alves Luzia, Gilberto Simeone Henriques, Patrícia Helen de Carvalho Rondó, Ingridi de Souza Sene, Ana Tárcila Alves de Almeida, Carlos Henrique Nery Costa, Dorcas Lamounier Costa
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2021
Subjects:
Leishmaniasis
Visceral
Kala-azar
Malnutrition
Vitamin A
Zinc
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Arctic
Azar
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0800-2020
https://doaj.org/article/c1a24d7485574e9f9b75b98c55423413

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