Vitamin D and tuberculosis

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 289-293

  Chocano Bedoya, Patricia ^a   Ronnenberg, Alayne G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene nutrient interaction; Innate immunity; Tuberculosis; Vitamin D deficiency; Vitamin D receptor polymorphism

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR; CALCITRIOL RECEPTOR;

GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION RISK; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TUBERCULOSIS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN D METABOLISM; BLOOD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, CALCITRIOL; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 67650727387     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 17534887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2009.00195.x     Document Type: Review

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