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Vitamin D Insufficiency Is Common in Ugandan Children and Is Associated with Severe Malaria

Vitamin D plays an increasingly recognized role in the innate and adaptive immune response to infection. Based on demonstrated roles in up-regulating innate immunity, decreasing inflammation, and reducing the severity of disease in illnesses such as tuberculosis and influenza, we hypothesized that p...

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Autores principales: Cusick, Sarah E., Opoka, Robert O., Lund, Troy C., John, Chandy C., Polgreen, Lynda E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4254466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25470777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113185