Effect of administration of 200,000 IU of vitamin A to women within 24 hrs after delivery on response to OPV administered to the newborn

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 217-222

  Bhaskaram, P ^a   Balakrishna, N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (India)

Author keywords

Oral Polio Vaccine; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RETINOL; ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG INTERACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; NEWBORN; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PUERPERIUM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFERENCE VALUE; ANTIBODY TITER; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SEROCONVERSION; SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOVIRUS; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, ORAL; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; REFERENCE VALUES; VITAMIN A;

EID: 0031596207     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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