Vitamin A administered with measles vaccine to nine-month-old infants does not reduce vaccine immunogenicity

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 129, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1569-1573

  Bahl, Rajiv ^a   Kumar, Ramesh ^a   Bhandari, Nita ^a   Kant, Shashi ^a   Srivastava, Ranjana ^a   Bhan, Maharaj K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Immune response; Infants; Measles immunization; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

MEASLES ANTIBODY; MEASLES VACCINE; PLACEBO; RETINOL;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGENICITY; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES VACCINATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEROCONVERSION;

SLUM;

EID: 0032765111     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/129.8.1569     Document Type: Article

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