Routine vaccinations associated with divergent effects on female and male mortality at the paediatric ward in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Vaccine

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1197-1204

  Veirum, Jens Erik ^a,c   Sodemann, Morten ^a   Biai, Sidu ^a,b   Jakobsen, Marianne ^a   Garly, May Lill ^a,c   Hedegaard, Kathryn ^c   Jensen, Henrik ^a,c   Aaby, Peter ^a,c  

^a Bissau Guinea Bissau ^*  (Guinea-Bissau)

^b Hospital Nacional Simao Mendes   (Guinea-Bissau)

^c DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY RESEARCH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fatality ratio; Measles; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEDIATRICS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VACCINATION;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES VACCINE; ODDS RATIO; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, ORAL; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VACCINATION;

EID: 11144223033     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2004.02.053     Document Type: Article

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