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Prolonged feeding with over fortified milk or vitamin preparations has been reported as sources of excess intake of vitamin D. Abnormal vitamin D metabolism resulting from inflammatory diseases such as sarcoidosis or tuberculosis or as seen in neonatal fat necrosis are additional potential causes, albeit highly unlikely in young infants [ 12 ] . The mechanism is thought to be due to increased 1á-hydroxylase activity leading to increased production of 1,25-dihydroxy Vitamin D.
M. smegmatis is a fast-growing, nonpathogenic species of Mycobacterium in which M. tuberculosis genes can be efficiently expressed [ 16 17 18 ] . An in depth analysis of one recombinant clone revealed that M. smegmatis recipients carrying the M. tuberculosis eis gene on an extrachromosomal multicopy plasmid displayed 2.4- to 5.3-fold greater survival in U937 macrophages than wild-type M. smegmatis bacteria at 24 to 48 hours post-infection [ 15 ] . The 42-kDa eis gene product has been shown to be associated with the mycobacterial cell surface and is released into extracellular medium, but its precise function is not yet known [ 19 ] .
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Although multi-species studies are complex and multi-factorial, M. avium appears to be able to survive in secondary lysosomes better than does M. tuberculosis [ 18 ] . In macrophages co-infected with Coxiella burnetii, an intracellular pathogen known to inhabit and replicate within secondary lysosomes [ 19 ] , M. avium growth was not impaired [ 18 ] . Whereas M. tuberculosis bacilli that co-localized with C. burnetii containing vacuoles, did show reduced growth [ 18 ] . A recent report by Thomsen et al.
In patients with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection, antibiotic susceptibility test results were reviewed.
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