ANN 111: Principles of Animal Nutrition and Feed Technology (2+1)

DEFICIENCY – ANTI-INFECTIVE VITAMIN

• Vitamin A is involved in the formation and protection of epithelial cells.
• Damage to epithelial cells can cause easy entry of pathogenic microbes leading to infection.
• So infection of gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, urogenital tract and skin is common in Vitamin A deficiency.
• As vitamin A helps to prevent these infections it is called anti infective vitamin.