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Zinc and vitamin A supplementation fails to reduce sputum conversion time in severely malnourished pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Indonesia

BACKGROUND: A previous study showed that combination of zinc and vitamin A reduced sputum conversion time in pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients. OBJECTIVE: We studied the efficacy of which single micronutrient contributed more to the sputum conversion time. METHODS: In a double-blind randomized co...

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Autores principales: Pakasi, Trevino A, Karyadi, Elvina, Suratih, Ni Made Desy, Salean, Michael, Darmawidjaja, Nining, Bor, Hans, van der Velden, Koos, Dolmans, Wil MV, van der Meer, Jos WM
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20920186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-9-41