PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINE PREVENTS DEATH FROM ACUTE LOWER-RESPIRATORY-TRACT INFECTIONS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEAN CHILDREN

The Lancet

Volumn 328, Issue 8512, 1986, Pages 877-881

  Riley, I D ^a   Alpers, M P ^a   Gratten, H ^a   Lehmann, D ^a   Marshall, T F DeC ^a   Smith, D ^a  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

CHILD; DRUG COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG THERAPY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; THERAPY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFANT; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0023005615     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(86)90409-5     Document Type: Article

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