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Workshop no. 2. Parasitic infection and host nutrition

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Even if we do not always acknowledge the fact, nutrition is a fundamental aspect of symbiosis and parasitism. (1) The significance of nutrition often forms a basic feature in schemos of classification of the various associations between living organisms (see Read, 1908; Whitfield, 1979). (2) The growth and reproduction of different parasites appear to Vary in response to the nutrition of the host (see Mettrick & Podesta, 1974; Nesheim, Crompton, Arnold & Barnard, 1977; 1978; Parshad, Crompton & Nesheim, 1980). (3) The course of a parasitic infection may also vary in response to the nutritional status of the host and perhaps such variations are the result of the affocts of nutrition on the host's immune response (Chandra & Nowberne, 1977; Chandra, 1980). (4) Finally, parasitic disease is well known to be much more scrious in undernourished hosts (see Chandra & Newberne, 1977); when man's the deprived host, the impact of infections and parasitic disease on young children is Particularly severe and distressing (Latliam, 1975).

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Parasitology , Volume 82 , Issue 4 , July 1981 , pp. 31 - 48
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