Vitamin A levels and immunity in humans

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 616-621

  Jason, Janine ^a   Archibald, Lennox K ^a   Nwanyanwu, Okey C ^a   Sowell, Anne L ^a   Buchanan, Ian ^a   Larned, Joshua ^a   Bell, Michael ^a   Kazembe, Peter N ^a   Dobbie, Hamish ^a   Jarvis, William R ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RETINOL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGE; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNITY; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALAWI; MALE; MONOCYTE; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARASITEMIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

BCG VACCINE; CHILD; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VITAMIN A;

EID: 0036113596     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.3.616-621.2002     Document Type: Article

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