Comparison of blood parameters at the termination of the experiment revealed that pigs on the protein-deficient diet had significantly decreased levels of glucose, total protein, and albumin (Fig. 2, HIFM/HRV-infected pigs on deficient and sufficient diets; no-HRV/no-HIFM controls, data not shown), as seen in malnourished children (which develop because of malnutrition itself and malabsorption associated with malnutrition). Here, ALB is linked to nutritional deficiency disease.