Preparation for a pneumococcal vaccine trial in The Gambia: Individual or community randomisation?

Vaccine

Volumn 18, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 633-640

  Jaffar, Shabbar ^a   Leach, Amanda ^b   Hall, Andrew J ^a   Obaro, Steven ^b   McAdam, Keith P W J ^b   Smith, Peter G ^a   Greenwood, Brian M ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; GAMBIA; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; INFANT MORTALITY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; GAMBIA; HUMANS; INFANT; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINES, CONJUGATE;

EID: 0032736845     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(99)00277-7     Document Type: Article

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