Nature Medicine
- 12, 388 - 390 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nm0406-388
Fighting infections with vitamin DMichael Zasloff
The author is in the Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20007, USA. maz5@georgetown.edu
kanjiSunlight can treat tuberculosis, a phenomenon observed more than a century ago. The mechanism now becomes more clear, and it involves induction of a microbe-fighting peptide by vitamin D.
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