Significant Effects of Oral Phenylbutyrate and Vitamin D3 Adjunctive Therapy in Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Akhirunnesa Mily ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Akhirunnesa Mily, Rokeya Sultana Rekha

  ¶‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212 Bangladesh

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• Rokeya Sultana Rekha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Akhirunnesa Mily, Rokeya Sultana Rekha

  ¶‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

  Affiliations International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212 Bangladesh, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• S. M. Mostafa Kamal,

  Affiliation National Institute of the Diseases of the Chest and Hospital, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Abu Saleh Mohammad Arifuzzaman,

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212 Bangladesh

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• Zeaur Rahim,

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212 Bangladesh

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• Lamia Khan,

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212 Bangladesh

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• Md. Ahsanul Haq,

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212 Bangladesh

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• Khaliqu Zaman,

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212 Bangladesh

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• Peter Bergman,

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Susanna Brighenti,

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Gudmundur H. Gudmundsson,

  Affiliation Biomedical Center, University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland

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• Birgitta Agerberth,

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Rubhana Raqib

  * E-mail: rubhana@icddrb.org

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212 Bangladesh

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