Talk:Management of tuberculosis

Vitamin D and tuberculosis
Where should this paragraph go? Does it belong in tuberculosis treatment or in vitamin D?


 * Vitamin D supplementation appears to have a beneficial effect on the treatment of tuberculosis, although the mechanism by which this happens is not entirely clear. In mice, the mechanism appears to be up-regulation of nitric oxide-mediated killing, but this appears not to be the case in humans.  Instead, in humans, vitamin D-mediated killing appears to happen via an  antimicrobial peptide called cathelicidin.  Indeed, reduced levels of vitamin D may explain the increased susceptibility of African-Americans to tuberculosis, and may also explain why phototherapy is effective for lupus vulgaris (tuberculosis of the skin), a finding which won Niels Finsen the Nobel Prize in 1903, because skin exposed to sunlight naturally produces more vitamin D.
 * Right, I've created a nutrition section and pasted this into a specific subsection on vitamin D.