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Part I: The Foundations of the Nutrition-Infection Nexus.- Pathways Linking Nutritional Status and Infectious Disease: A Conceptional Framework.- Core Principles of Nutrition.- Primer on Immune Response and Interface with Malnutrition.- Part II: Types of Infectious Diseases and Influences of Nutrition.- Bacterial Infections and Nutrition: A Primer.- Viral Infections and Nutrition: Influenza Virus as a Case Study.- Nutrition and Protozoan Pathogens of Humans: A Primer.- Human Helminth Infections: A Primer.- Part III: Nutrition Issues During Major Infections: Case Studies of Nutrition and Infectious Disease.- Nutrition and Diarrheal Disease and Enteric Pathogens.- Nutrition in HIV and Tuberculosis.- Nutrition and Arboviruses.- Nutritional Frameworks in Malaria.- Soil-Transmitted Helminths: Does Nutrition Make a Difference?.- Part IV: Integration of Cross-Cutting Issues in Nutrition/Infection Interactions.- Drug-Nutrition Interactions in Infectious Diseases.- Co-infection and Nutrition: Integrating Ecological and Epidemiological Perspectives.- Nutrition and Infections in the Context of Global Environmental Change.- Public Health and Clinical Implications of Nutrition/Infection Interactions.