Differences in female-male mortality after high-titre measles vaccine and association with subsequent vaccination with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and inactivated poliovirus: Reanalysis of West African studies

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Volumn 361, Issue 9376, 2003, Pages 2183-2188

  Aaby, Peter ^a,b,d   Jensen, Henrik ^a   Samb, Badara ^b   Cisse, Badara ^b   Sodemann, Morten ^a   Jakobsen, Marianne ^a   Poulsen, Anja ^a   Rodrigues, Amabelia ^a   Lisse, Ida Maria ^a   Simondon, Francois ^b   Whittle, Hilton ^c  

^a Danish Epidemiology Science Centre   (Guinea-Bissau)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY RESEARCH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MORTALITY; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TETANUS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0037492553     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13771-3     Document Type: Article

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