Vitamin C and Acute Illness in Navajo Schoolchildren

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 295, Issue 18, 1976, Pages 973-977

  Coulehan, John L ^a   Eberhard, Susan ^a   Kapner, Louis ^a   Taylor, Floyd ^a   Rogers, Kenneth ^a   Garry, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; PLACEBO;

BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CHILD; CLINICAL STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG COMPARISON; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROORGANISM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SERUM; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERAPY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0017110378     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197610282951802     Document Type: Article

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