Diet and cerebral malaria: the effect of famine and refeeding
Open Access
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 31 (1), 57-61
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/31.1.57
Abstract
In an outbreak of Plasmodium falciparum malaria following refeeding after famine cerebral malaria was restricted to children eating grain. Nomad children consuming a predominantly milk diet were free of this complication despite an equivalent incidence of uncomplicated malaria. Freedom of nomads from cerebral complications may be due to inhibition by the milk diet of rapid division of the parasite combined with delayed recovery after famine of T cell function.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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