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Effect of protein malnutrition on salmonellosis and fever
1Department of Internal Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Infection and Immunity
|April 1, 1988
Abstract:
Protein-malnourished rats had greater numbers of bacteria in their livers and spleens compared with numbers in control rats following a sublethal intraperitoneal dose of Salmonella typhimurium. However, the febrile responses of both groups of rats to infection were similar. The ability to mount a normal febrile response does not necessarily reflect the ability of the host to contain an infection.