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Vitamin D accelerates clinical recovery from tuberculosis: results of the SUCCINCT Study [Supplementary Cholecalciferol in recovery from tuberculosis]. A randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial of vitamin D supplementation in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis’

BACKGROUND: Vitamin D enhances host protective immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis by suppressing Interferon-gamma (IFN-g) and reducing disease associated inflammation in the host. The objectives of this study were to determine whether vitamin D supplementation to patients with tuberculos...

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Autores principales: Salahuddin, Nawal, Ali, Farheen, Hasan, Zahra, Rao, Nisar, Aqeel, Masooma, Mahmood, Faisal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3556334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23331510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-22