Unraveling the contradictions of vitamin A and infectious diseases in children

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 196, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 965-967

  Kosek, Margaret ^a   Oberhelman, Richard A ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE; MEASLES VACCINE; RETINOL;

DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; XEROPHTHALMIA;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 35348912508     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521197     Document Type: Editorial

References (12)

1. Bloch CE. Blindness and other diseases in children arising from deficient nutrition (lack of fat soluble A factor). Am J Dis Child 1924; 27:139-48.
2. Ellison JB. Intensive vitamin therapy in measles. BMJ 1932; 2:708-11.
3. Green HN, Mellanby E. Vitamin A as an anti-infective agent. BMJ 1928; 2:595-8.
4. Sommer A, Tarwotjo I, Hussaini G, Susanto D. Increased mortality in children with mild vitamin A deficiency. Lancet 1983; 2:585-8.
5. Vitamin A supplementation in northern Ghana: effects on clinic attendances, hospital admissions, and child mortality. Ghana VAST Study Team. Lancet 1993; 342:7-12.
6. Rahmathullah L, Tielsch JM, Thulasiraj RD, et al. Impact of supplementing newborn infants with vitamin A on early infant mortality: community based randomised trial in southern India. BMJ 2003; 327:254.
7. West KP Jr, Pokhrel RP, Katz J, et al. Efficacy of vitamin A in reducing preschool child mortality in Nepal. Lancet 1991; 338:67-71.
8. Jones G, Steketee RW, Black RE, Bhutta ZA, Morris SS. How many child deaths can we prevent this year? Lancet 2003; 362:65-71.
9. Binka FN, Ross DA, Morris SS, et al. Vitamin A supplementation and childhood malaria in northern Ghana. Am J Clin Nutr 1995; 61:853-9.
10. Shankar AH, Genton B, Semba RD, et al. Effect of vitamin A supplementation on morbidity due to Plasmodium falciparum in young children in Papua New Guinea: a randomised trial. Lancet 1999; 354:203-9.
11. Long KZ, García C, Santos JI, et al. Vitamin A supplementation has divergent effects on norovirus infections and clinical symptoms among Mexican children. J Infect Dis 2007; 196:978-85 (in this issue).
12. Long KZ, Santos JI, Rosado JL, et al. Impact of vitamin A on selected gastrointestinal pathogen infections and associated diarrheal episodes among children in Mexico City, Mexico. J Infect Dis 2006; 194:1217-25.