Sentences with phrase «with pellagra»

A critical review: A reexamination of the composition of diets associated with pellagra.

Right away, Goldberger saw a flaw in the fly - infection theory: Institutions with pellagra cases consistently reported that staff members, presumably vulnerable to the same flies, weren't diagnosed with the disease.

He tried to infect himself, his wife and other volunteers with pellagra by injecting and ingesting the skin scales, urine, feces, blood and saliva from pellagra patients.

Not exact matches

A deficiency of niacin, or vitamin 83, causes pellagra, with its associated skin breakdown.

In the intervening centuries, pellagra was particularly widespread — and well documented — in northern Italy, with cases reported as far afield as South Africa and Egypt.

The initial mandatory fortification of breads and corn - based products with niacin in 1942 wiped out pellagra, a deficiency of niacin that had killed thousands of people in the United States.

Severe niacin deficiency can result in pellagra, a condition with symptoms that include scaly and cracked skin, diarrhea and dementia.

High corn or other tryptophan - deficient diets can cause pellagra, which is a niacin - tryptophan deficiency disease with symptoms of dermatitis, diarrhea and dementia.

Vitamin B3 deficiency lasting for few months [7] causes pellagra (Italian pella agra = rough skin) with «four D» symptoms: dermatitis with burn - like blisters and later rough, scaly and painful, but not itchy, lesions on the sun - exposed areas (face, extension side of the hands / arms and leg / feet), diarrhea, dementia and death (if not treated)[1].

They and other volunteers swabbed their noses with swabs from pellagra patients, and swallowed capsules containing scabs from pellagra rashes in what were called «Goldberger's filth parties.»