Does vitamin D deficiency contribute to further impinge the state of vulnerability to infections of aging and aged adults?

European Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-65

  Lang, P O ^a,b   Samaras, D ^c   Samaras, N ^c  

^a Nescens Centre of Preventive Medicine   (Switzerland)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Immunity; Infectious disease; Vaccine response; VDR; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AGING; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HELPER CELL; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFLUENZA; INNATE IMMUNITY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SECONDARY INFECTION; SENESCENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; T LYMPHOCYTE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VACCINATION; VACCINE FAILURE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 84875210573     PISSN: 18787649     EISSN: 18787657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurger.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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