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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION
Volume 93, Issue 3, Pages 578-585Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.110.003913
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- National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico
- National Institutes of Health [K01 DK06142-02]
- Nestle Foundation
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Background: The efficacy of vitamin A supplementation on diarrheal disease morbidity may reflect the divergent effects that supplementation has on pathogen-specific immune responses and pathogen-specific outcomes. Objective: We examined how vitamin A supplementation modified associations between gut-cytokine immune responses and the resolution of different diarrheal pathogen infections. Design: Stools collected from 127 Mexican children who were 5-15 mo old and enrolled in a randomized, placebo-controlled vitamin A supplementation trial were screened for enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC), and Giardia lamblia. Fecal concentrations of interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, IL-4, IL-5, IL-10, monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), and interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) were measured by using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Hazard models that incorporated categorized cytokine variables (ie, nondetectable, less than the median of detectable concentrations, and at least the median of detectable concentrations) were fit to the length of pathogen infections stratified by treatment group. Results: Vitamin A-supplemented children with fecal MCP-1 or IL-8 concentrations less than the median of detectable concentrations and IL-10 concentrations of at least median concentrations had longer durations of EPEC infection than did children in the placebo group. In supplemented children, detectable fecal TNF-alpha or IL-6 concentrations were associated with shorter ETEC infection durations, whereas MCP-1 concentrations of at least the median were associated with longer infection durations. Children in this group who had IL-4, IL-5, or IFN-gamma concentrations of at least median detectable concentrations had shorter durations of G. lamblia infection. Conclusion: The effect of supplementation on associations between fecal cytokine concentrations and pathogen infection resolution depends on the role of inflammatory immune responses in resolving specific pathogen infections. Am J Clin Nutr 2011;93:578-85.
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