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Severe acute malnutrition promotes bacterial binding over pro-inflammatory cytokine secretion by circulating innate immune cells

2023-04-17 nutrition Title + abstract only
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Children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are at high risk of infectious mortality and morbidity during and after hospital discharge. This risk persists despite nutritional and prophylactic antibiotic interventions among children with SAM, implicating persistent deficits in their immune defenses. Here we test the hypothesis that innate immune cells from children (0-59 months) hospitalized with SAM in Zambia and Zimbabwe (n=141) have distinct capacity to respond to bacteria relative to adequa...

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