Increased female-male mortality ratio associated with inactivated polio and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccines: Observations from vaccination trials in Guinea-Bissau

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 247-252

  Aaby, Peter ^a,b,c   Garly, May Lill ^a,b   Nielsen, Jens ^a,b   Ravn, Henrik ^a,b   Martins, Cesario ^a   Balé, Carlitos ^a   Rodrigues, Amabelia ^a   Benn, Christine Stabell ^a,b   Lisse, Ida Maria ^a,b  

^a Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Guinea-Bissau)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

^c DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY RESEARCH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

DTP; IPV; Measles vaccine; Nonspecific effects of vaccination; Sex differential effects

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; INACTIVATED VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES VACCINATION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VACCINATION;

CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; MALE; MEASLES VACCINE; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, INACTIVATED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33847410144     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000256735.05098.01     Document Type: Article

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