Vitamin D deficiency is associated with community-acquired clostridium difficile infection: a case–control study

BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is increasingly recognized as an important community acquired pathogen causing disease (CA-CDI). Vitamin D [25(OH)D] has immune modulatory effects and plays an important role in intestinal immunity. The role of vitamin D in CA-CDI has not been examin...

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Autores principales: Sahay, Tanya, Ananthakrishnan, Ashwin N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25471926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-014-0661-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25471926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-014-0661-6

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