Vitamin-D supplementation in patients with new smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) with refrence to sputum conversion

G. N. Srivastava, S. Chaudhry, H. Kumar, S. K. Singh (Varanasi, India)

Source: Annual Congress 2011 - Clinical tuberculosis
Session: Clinical tuberculosis
Session type: Thematic Poster Session
Number: 2588
Disease area: Respiratory infections

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