Nutritional Abnormalities In Infectious Diseases

Listed in the 1997 edition of Doody's Rating Service: A Buyer's Guide to the 250 Best Health Sciences Books!Nutritional Abnormalities in Infectious Diseases: Effects on Tuberculosis and AIDS focuses on nutritional factors in relation to tuberculosis and AIDS to help you better understand and treat these diseases. Health care providers and researchers can refer to this valuable resource to identify the most crucial nutritional determinants involved in the control of TB, outline the nutrient-sensitive host defense mechanisms involved, define the effects of malabsorption and drug-drug interactions, and demonstrate the effects of co-infection with HIV on the incidence of TB. The expert contributors to this volume presented these findings at the 94th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.