@article{8ea1bc3fd70f4628997ec31f941ad814,
title = "VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY AND MORTALITY RISK",
author = "Alfred Sommer",
note = "Funding Information: progressing to AIDS may be in the process of acquiring large popu- lations of microbial agents. The phagocytic cells of AIDS patients are actively ingesting these microbial agents, incorporating their iron and synthesising and releasing ferritin. If this is the correct explanation, it is likely that the phagocytic activity of these cells is also associated with the release of toxic oxygen radicals and lysosomal enzymes.5 These substances may damage lymphoid cells and thereby worsen the immunodeficiency of PGL and AIDS patients. Ferritin itself has immunosuppressive effects and the increased ferritin concentration may also contribute to immuno-deficiency. b Supported by US Public Health Service grants CA-06551, RR-05539, CA-22780, and CA-06927 from the National Institutes of Health and by an appropriation from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. BARUCH S. BLUMBERG HIE-WON L. HANN DONNA MILDVAN USHA MATHUR EDWARD LUSTBADER W. THOMAS LONDON",
year = "1984",
month = feb,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1016/S0140-6736(84)90398-2",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "323",
pages = "347--348",
journal = "The Lancet",
issn = "0140-6736",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "8372",
}