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. 2008 Feb 1;46(3):443-6.
doi: 10.1086/525268.

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

Katherine B Gibney  1 , Lachlan MacGregor, Karin Leder, Joseph Torresi, Caroline Marshall, Peter R Ebeling, Beverley-Ann Biggs
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Vitamin D deficiency is associated with tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection in immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa

Katherine B Gibney et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Among African immigrants in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, we demonstrated lower geometric mean vitamin D levels in immigrants with latent tuberculosis infection than in those with no Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (P=.007); such levels were also lower in immigrants with tuberculosis or past tuberculosis than in those with latent tuberculosis infection (P=.001). Higher vitamin D levels were associated with lower probability of any M. tuberculosis infection (P=.001) and lower probability of tuberculosis or past tuberculosis (compared with latent tuberculosis infection; P=.001).

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