Literature on zinc research

Aggett PJ, Comerford JG. Zinc and human health. Nutrition Rev 1995; 53(9): s16-s22.

Allen LH. Zinc and micronutrient supplements for children. Am J Clin Nutr 1998; 68(Suppl 2): S495-98.

Awasthi S; INCLEN Childnet Zinc Effectiveness for Diarrhea (IC-ZED) Group. Zinc supplementation in acute diarrhea is acceptable, does not interfere with oral rehydration, and reduces the use of other medications: a randomized trial in five countries. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2006 Mar;42(3): 300-5.

Bahl R, Bhandari N, Hambidge KM, Bhan MK. Plasma zinc as a predictor of diarrhea and respiratory morbidity in children in an urban slum setting. Am J Clin Nutr 1998; 68(Suppl 2): S414-17.

Baqui AH, Ahmed T. Diarrhoea and malnutrition in children. BMJ. 2006 Feb 18; 332(7538): 378.

Baqui AH, Black RE, El Arifeen S, Yunus M, Chakraborty J, Ahmed S et al. Effect of zinc supplementation started during diarrhoea on morbidity and mortality in Bangladeshi children: community randomised trial. BMJ 2002; 325(7372): 1059-62.|full text|

Berne Y, Carias D, Cioccia AM, Gonzalez E, Hevia P. Effect of the diuretic furosemide on urinary essential nutrient loss and on body stores in growing rats. Arch Latinoam Nutr. 2005 Jun; 55(2): 154-60.

Bhan G, Bhandari N, Taneja S, Mazumder S, Bahl R; Zinc Study Group. The effect of maternal education on gender bias in care seeking for common childhood illnesses. Soc Sci Med. 2005 Feb; 60(4): 715-24.

Bhandari N, Bahl R, Taneja S, Strand T, Mølbak K, Ulvik J et al. Effect of routine zinc supplementation on pneumonia in children aged 6 months to 3 years: randomised controlled trial in an urban slum. BMJ 2002; 324(7350): 1358-60. |full text|

Bhandari N, Mazumder S, Taneja S, Dube B, Black RE, Fontaine O, Mahalanabis D, Bhan MK. A pilot test of the addition of zinc to the current case management package of diarrhea in a primary health care setting. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2005 Nov; 41(5): 685-7.

Bhatnagar S, Natchu UC. Zinc in child health and disease. Indian J Pediatr. 2004 Nov; 71(11): 991-5. Review.

Bhutta ZA, Black RE, Brown KH, Gardner JM, Gore S, Hidayat A et al. Prevention of diarrhoea and pneumonia by zinc supplementation in children in developing countries: pooled analysis of randomised controlled trials. J Pediatr 1999; 135(6): 689-97.

Bhutta ZA. The role of zinc in child health in developing countries: taking the science where it matters. Indian Pediatr. 2004 May;4 1(5): 429-33. Review.

Black RE, Sazawal S. Zinc and childhood infectious disease morbidity and mortality. Br J Nutr 2001; 85(Suppl 2): S125-29.

Black RE. Therapeutic and preventive effects of zinc on serious childhood infectious diseases in developing countries. Am J of Clin Nutr 1998; 68(Suppl 2): S476-79.

Bobat R, Coovadia H, Stephen C, Naidoo KL, McKerrow N, Black RE, Moss WJ. Safety and efficacy of zinc supplementation for children with HIV-1 infection in South Africa: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2005 Nov 26; 366(9500): 1862-7.

Boran P, Tokuc G, Vagas E, Oktem S, Gokduman MK. Impact of zinc supplementation in children with acute diarrhoea in Turkey. Arch Dis Child. 2006 Apr; 91(4): 296-9.

Briassoulis G, Filippou O, Hatzi E, Papassotiriou I, Hatzis T. Early enteral administration of immunonutrition in critically ill children: results of a blinded randomized controlled clinical trial. Nutrition. 2005 Jul-Aug; 21(7-8): 799-807.

Brooks WA, Santosham M, Naheed A, Goswami D, Wahed MA, Diener-West M, Faruque AS, Black RE. Effect of weekly zinc supplements on incidence of pneumonia and diarrhoea in children younger than 2 years in an urban, low-income population in Bangladesh: randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2005 Sep 17-23; 366(9490): 999-1004.

Brooks WA, Santosham M, Roy SK, Faruque AS, Wahed MA, Nahar K, Khan AI, Khan AF, Fuchs GJ, Black RE. Efficacy of zinc in young infants with acute watery diarrhea. Am J Clin Nutr. 2005 Sep; 82(3): 605-10.  

Brooks WA, Yunus M, Santosham M, Wahed MA, Nahar K, Yeasmin S, Black RE. Zinc for severe pneumonia in very young children: double-blind pacebo-controlled trial. Lancet 2005; 363(9422): 1683-8. |full text|

Brown KH, Peerson JM, Allem JH. Effect of zinc supplementation on child’s growth a meta-analysis of intervention trials. Bibi Nutr Dieta 1997; 54: 76-83.

Celiksoz A, Acioz M, Degerli S, Cinar Z, Elaldi N, Erandac M. Effects of giardiasis on school success, weight and height indices of primary school children in Turkey. Pediatr Int. 2005 Oct; 47(5): 567-71.

Chew AL, Chan I, McGrath JA, Atherton DJ. Infantile acquired zinc deficiency resembling acrodermatitis enteropathica. Clin Exp Dermatol. 2005 Sep; 30(5): 594-5.

Christine Hotz, Janet M Person, and Kenneth H Brown, Suggested lower cuttofs of serum zinc concentrations for assessing zinc status: reanalysis of the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data (1976 – 1980); Am J Clin Nutr 2003; 78:756-64.

Cuevas LE, Koyanagi A. Zinc and infection: a review. Ann Trop Paediatr. 2005 Sep; 25(3): 149-60.

Dybkjaer L, Jacobsen AP, Togersen FA, Poulsen HD. Eating and drinking activity of newly weaned piglets: effects of individual characteristics, social mixing, and addition of extra zinc to the feed. J Anim Sci. 2006 Mar; 84(3): 702-11.

Edejer TT, Aikins M, Black R, Wolfson L, Hutubessy R, Evans DB. Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for child health in developing countries. BMJ. 2005 Nov 19; 331(7526): 1177.

Fairbrother JM, Nadeau E, Gyles CL. Escherichia coli in postweaning diarrhea in pigs: an update on bacterial types, pathogenesis, and prevention strategies. Anim Health Res Rev. 2005 Jun; 6(1): 17-39.

Fontaine O. Effect of zinc supplementation on clinical course of acute diarrhoea. J Health Popul Nutr 2001; 19(4): 339-46. |full text|

Gibson R. Zinc nutrition in developing countries. Nutr Res Rev 1994; 7:151-73.

Gibson RS. Zinc: the missing link in combating micronutrient malnutrition in developing countries. Proc Nutr Soc. 2006 Feb;65(1):51-60.

Green JA, Paton NI. Zinc supplementation in children with HIV-1 infection. Lancet. 2006 Mar 11;367(9513):814-5; author reply 815-6.

Hambidge KM. Zinc deficiency in young children. Am J clin Nutr 1997; 65(1): 160-61.

He M, Yang YX, Han H, Men JH, Bian LH, Wang GD. Effects of yogurt supplementation on the growth of preschool children in Beijing suburbs. Biomed Environ Sci. 2005 Jun; 18(3): 192-7

Hossain S, Alam AN & Hai MA Studies of serum zinc levels in children of different nutritional status in Bangladesh - Bangladesh Journal Physiology and Pharmacology 1987; 3: 5-11.

Khan MA, Larson CP, Faruque ASG, Saha UR, Hoque AM, Alam NU, Salam MA. Introduction of routine zinc therapy for children with diarrhoea: evaluation of safety. J Health Pop Nutr, 2007 Jun 25 (2):127-33.

Larson CP, Hoque AB, Larson CP, Khan AM, Saha UR. Initiation of zinc treatment for acute childhood diarrhoea and risk for vomiting or regurgitation: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. J Health Popul Nutr. 2005 Dec; 23(4): 311-9.

Larson CP, Saha UR, Islam R, Roy N. Childhood diarrhoea management practices in Bangladesh: private sector dominance and continued inequities in care. Int J Epidemiol 2006; 35; 1430 – 9.

Larson CP, Roy Sk, Khan AI, Rahman AS, Qadri F. Zinc treatment to under-five children: applications to improve child survival and reduce burden of disease. J Health Popul Nutr 2008 Sep;26(3):356-65

Larson CP, Saha UR, Nazrul H. Impact Monitoring of the National Scale Up of Zinc Treatment for Childhood Diarrhea in Bangladesh: Repeat Ecologic Surveys. PLoS Medicine, 2009  Nov; 6(11): e1000175.

Lira PI, Ashworth A, Morris SS. Effect of zinc supplementation on the moribidity, immune function, and growth of low-birth-weight, full-term infants in northeast Brazil. Am J Clin Nutr 1998; 68(Supp 2): S418-24.

Long KZ, Montoya Y, Hertzmark E, Santos JI, Rosado JL. A double-blind, randomized, clinical trial of the effect of vitamin A and zinc supplementation on diarrheal disease and respiratory tract infections in children in Mexico City, Mexico. Am J Clin Nutr. 2006 Mar; 83(3): 693-700.

McClung JP, Scrimgeour AG. Zinc: an essential trace element with potential benefits to soldiers. Mil Med. 2005 Dec;170(12): 1048-52.

Nasrin D, Larson CP, Sultana S, Khan TU. Acceptability of and adherence to dispersible zinc tablet in the treatment of acute childhood diarrhoea. J Health Popul Nutr. 2005 Sep; 23(3): 215-21.

Prasad AS. Clinical manifestations of zinc deficiency. Annu Rev Nutr 1985; 5: 341-361.

Ranjan R, Naresh R, Patra RC, Swarup D. Erythrocyte lipid peroxides and blood zinc and copper concentrations in acute undifferentiated diarrhoea in calves. Vet Res Commun. 2006 Apr; 30(3): 249-54.

Roy SK, Tomkins AM, Haider R, Behren RH, Akramuzzaman SM, Mahalanabis D et el. Impact of zinc supplementation on subsequent growth and morbidity in Bangladeshi children with acute diarrhea. Eur J Clin Nutr 1999; 53(7): 529-34.

Sandstead HH. Is zinc deficiency a public health problem? Nutrition 1995; 11(Suppl 1): 87-92.

Sazawal S, Jalla S, Mazumder S, Sinha A, Black RE, Bhan MK. Effect of zinc supplementation of cell-mediated immunity and lymphocyte subsets in preschool children. Indian Pediatr 1997; 34(7): 589-98.

Shamir R, Makhoul IR, Etzioni A, Shehadeh N.  Evaluation of a diet containing probiotics and zinc for the treatment of mild diarrheal illness in children younger than one year of age. J Am Coll Nutr. 2005 Oct; 24(5): 370-5.

Shankar AH, Prasad AS. Zinc and immune function: the biological basis of altered resistance to infection. Am J Clin Nutr 1998; 68(Suppl 2): S447-63.

Sharieff W, Bhutta ZA, Schauer C, Tomlinson G, Zlotkin S. Micronutrients (including zinc) reduce diarrhoea in children: The Pakistan sprinkles diarrhoea study. Arch Dis Child. 2006 Mar 23;

Sharieff W, Horton SE, Zlotkin S. Economic gains of a home fortification program: evaluation of "Sprinkles" from the provider’s perspective. Can J Public Health. 2006 Jan-Feb; 97(1): 20-3.

Shrimpton R. Zinc deficiency - is it widespread but under-recognized? In: Subcommittee on Nutrition News. Vol 9, Geneva: United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination. 1993: 24-7.

Sokolow SH, Rand C, Marks SL, Drazenovich NL, Kather EJ, Foley JE. Epidemiologic evaluation of diarrhea in dogs in an animal shelter. Am J Vet Res. 2005 Jun; 66(6): 1018-24.

Tielsch JM, Khatry SK, Stoltzfus RJ, Katz J, LeClerq SC, Adhikari R, Mullany LC, Shresta S, Black RE. Effect of routine prophylactic supplementation with iron and folic acid on preschool child mortality in southern Nepal: community-based, cluster-randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2006 Jan 14; 367(9505): 144-52.

WalkerCLF, Black RE, Baqui AH. Does age affect the response to zinc therapy for diarrhoea in Bangladeshi infants? (short report) J Health Popul Nutr 2008 Mar;26(1):105-9 (ICDDR,B Matlab data used) [Read Full Text]

Wang B, Feng WY, Wang TC, Jia G, Wang M, Shi JW, Zhang F, Zhao YL, Chai ZF. Acute toxicity of nano- and micro-scale zinc powder in healthy adult mice. Toxicol Lett. 2006 Feb 20; 161(2): 115-23.

Winch PJ, Gilroy KE, Doumbia S, Patterson AE, Daou Z, Coulibaly S, Swedberg E, Black RE, Fontaine O.  Prescription and administration of a 14-day regimen of zinc treatment for childhood diarrhea in Mali. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006 May; 74(5): 880-3.

Wintergerst ES, Maggini S, Hornig DH. Immune-enhancing role of vitamin C and zinc and effect on clinical conditions. Ann Nutr Metab. 2006;50(2): 85-94.