Vitamin D, tuberculin skin test conversion, and latent tuberculosis in Mongolian school-age children: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled feasibility trial
- 1 August 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 96 (2), 391-396
- https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.112.034967
Abstract
Background: By modulating immune function, vitamin D might increase innate immunity and inhibit the growth of initial bacterial invasion and protectThis publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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