title: Nutritional studies of the south eastern state peasant diet: studies of the effect of malarial infection (Plasmodium berghei) on electrolyte changes in rats fed the peasants' diet.
abstract: 1. Plasmodium Berghei (malaria infection) is not specifically related to the nutritional status of the host though nutritional status may aid the advance or elimination of the parasite. 2. The effect of the infection is more severe in low protein diets than in diets whose protein content was adequate. 3. There was no evidence of excessive urinary excretion of electrolytes in the infected rats. 4. It is suggested that low plasma levels of electrolytes in the infected rats were due to skin losses and these losses were independent of the protein content of the diet thus severity of malarial infection is unaffected by protein nutrition.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002712:Chlorides / Q000378:metabolism; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D004573:Electrolytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D008288:Malaria / Q000378:metabolism*; D009549:Nigeria; D010962:Plasmodium berghei; D011188:Potassium / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D012964:Sodium / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002712:Chlorides; D004044:Dietary Proteins; D004573:Electrolytes; D012964:Sodium; D011188:Potassium