Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with Tuberculosis and Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa

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...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Clinical infectious diseases 2008-02, Vol.46 (3), p.443-446
Hauptverfasser:	Gibney, Katherine B., MacGregor, Lachlan, Leder, Karin, Torresi, Joseph, Marshall, Caroline, Ebeling, Peter R., Biggs, Beverley-Ann
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Africa South of the Sahara - ethnology Aged Australia - epidemiology Bacterial diseases Biological and medical sciences Black people Brief Reports Emigrants and Immigrants Female Geometric mean Human bacterial diseases Humans Infections Infectious diseases Latent tuberculosis Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification Noncitizens Pulmonary tuberculosis Refugees Retrospective Studies Risk Factors Tuberculosis Tuberculosis - epidemiology Tuberculosis - metabolism Tuberculosis - microbiology Tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterial infections Vitamin D Vitamin D deficiency Vitamin D Deficiency - epidemiology Vitamin D Deficiency - microbiology Vitamin deficiency
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Zusammenfassung:	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
ISSN:	1058-4838 1537-6591
DOI:	10.1086/525268