To the Editor: Any role that vitamin D deficiency plays in increasing the risk of tuberculosis1,2 should not detract from the fact that infection with the causative organism is the necessary risk factor for disease, and decreasing the risk of infection initially will prevent disease even while factors that increase the risk of progression to active disease3 are present.
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