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supplemented a naturally inadequate diet in
growth-retarded New Guinea school children
and found that in addition to increased
growth in height and weight they had a better
antibody response to flagellin and significantly
lower serum 1gM concentrations than
controls not so supplemented. They postulated
that there was an excessive production
of low affinity antibody in malnutrition.
However, our results suggest only a very limited
role for malnutrition in the immune response
of school age children.