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Vitamin E and selenium: contrasting and interacting nutritional determinants of host resistance to parasitic and viral infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Orville A. Levander ,
Arba L. Ager Jr  and
Melinda A. Beck
Orville A. Levander
Affiliation:
Nutrient Requirements and Functions Laboratory, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350, USA
Arba L. Ager Jr
Affiliation:
Center for Tropical Parasitic Diseases, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33177, USA
Melinda A. Beck
Affiliation:
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-8180, USA
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Symposium on ‘Micronutrient interactions’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , July 1995 , pp. 475 - 487
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1995

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