Thymus Size at 6 Months of Age and Subsequent Child Mortality

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Garly, May Lill ^a,b   Trautner, Sisse Lecanda ^a   Marx, Charlotte ^a   Danebod, Kamilla ^a   Nielsen, Jens ^a,b   Ravn, Henrik ^a,b   Martins, Cesário Lourenco ^a   Balé, Carlito ^a   Aaby, Peter ^a,b   Lisse, Ida Maria ^a,c  

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

^b DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY RESEARCH   (Denmark)

^c GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INACTIVATED VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; BCG VACCINE; CHLOROQUINE; QUININE; THYMUS EXTRACT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THYMUS;

BCG VACCINE; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHLOROQUINE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES VACCINE; QUININE; RISK FACTORS; THYMUS EXTRACTS; THYMUS GLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 55549083171     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.04.069     Document Type: Article

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