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Human beings generally experience a large number of infectious illnesses during their lifetime. Whether mild and self-limited, or of overwhelming severity, generalized infectious illnesses are all accompanied by transient derangements in the nutritional status of the host.1,2 Thus, acute infectious illnesses constitute the most common transient threat to the nutritional status of normal persons. Some impact on host nutrition can be detected during infections with every variety of pathogenic microorganism studied; nutritional changes occur no matter whether a patient is well-nourished or poorly nourished at the time an infectious process begins.
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Beisel, W.R. (1982). The Effect of Infection on Host Nutritional Status. In: Vitale, J.J., Broitman, S.A. (eds) Advances in Human Clinical Nutrition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8290-1_10
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