Community and international nutrition: Vitamin A supplementation at birth delays pneumococcal colonization in South Indian infants

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 255-261

  Coles, Christian L ^a   Rahmathullah, Lakshmi ^b   Kanungo, Reba ^c   Thulasiraj, R D ^d   Katz, Joanne ^a   Santhosham, Mathuram ^a   Tielsch, James M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Aravind Centre for Women Children and Community Health   (India)

^c JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^d Lions Aravind Institute for Community Ophthalmology   (India)

Author keywords

Community trial; India; Pneumococcal carriage; Pneumococcal colonization; Vitamin A supplementation

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SEROTYPING;

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MORBIDITY; ODDS RATIO; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RURAL POPULATION; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0035150293     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/131.2.255     Document Type: Article

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