On Joseph Bramhall Ellison's discovery that vitamin A reduces measles mortality

Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 390-394

  Semba, Richard D ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COD LIVER OIL; RETINOL; VITAMIN D;

BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; BUTTER; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; DIARRHEA; DIET; EPIDEMIC; EPITHELIUM CELL; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LETHALITY; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MILK; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PERTUSSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; SCARLET FEVER; SEPSIS; SKIN INFECTION; TUBERCULOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; XEROPHTHALMIA;

GADUS MORHUA; MEASLES VIRUS;

EID: 0037380179     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-9007(02)01005-5     Document Type: Article

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