Vitamin D deficiency is associated with tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection in immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 443-446

  Gibney, Katherine B ^a,d   MacGregor, Lachlan ^a   Leder, Karin ^a,c   Torresi, Joseph ^a,b   Marshall, Caroline ^a,b   Ebeling, Peter R ^b   Biggs, Beverley Ann ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; TUBERCULOSIS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGED; AUSTRALIA; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 39349099303     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/525268     Document Type: Article

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