The effect of live measles vaccines on serum vitamin A levels in healthy children

Pediatrics International

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 345-349

  YalÇIn, S SongÜL ^a   YurdakÖK, Kadriye ^a   Özalp, İmran ^a   CoŞKun, Turgay ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Measles vaccine; Measles mumps rubella vaccine; Seroconversion; Serum vitamin A levels

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; MEASLES ANTIBODY; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; RETINOL;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN INTAKE;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES VACCINE; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; MUMPS VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VACCINES, COMBINED; VITAMIN A;

EID: 0031820185     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.1998.tb01945.x     Document Type: Article

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