Why worry: Vitamin A with DTP vaccine?

Vaccine

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 777-779

  Benn, Christine Stabell ^a,b   Fisker, Ane Bærent ^a,b   Jørgensen, Mathias Jul ^a,b   Aaby, Peter ^a,b  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b BANDIM HEALTH PROJECT   (Guinea-Bissau)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; PLACEBO; RETINOL;

CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG FATALITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; LETTER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VITAMIN A;

EID: 33845219653     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2006.09.044     Document Type: Letter

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