No adverse events after simultaneous administration of 50 000 IU vitamin A and Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccination to normal-birth-weight newborns in Guinea-Bissau

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 842-848

  Nante, J E ^a   Diness, B R ^b   Ravn, H ^b   Roth, A ^a,b   Aaby, P ^a,b   Benn, C S ^b  

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

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; BCG VACCINE; PLACEBO; RETINOL;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BCG VACCINATION; BLEEDING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT; SKULL MALFORMATION; SYMPTOM; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; VOMITING;

BCG VACCINE; CRANIAL FONTANELLES; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION; VITAMIN A;

EID: 47249109906     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: 14765640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602796     Document Type: Article

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