No effect of oral polio vaccine administered at birth on mortality and immune response to BCG: A natural experiment

Vaccine

Volumn 30, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 6694-6699

  Lund, Najaaraq ^a,b   Andersen, Andreas ^a   Monteiro, Ivan ^c   Aaby, Peter ^c   Benn, Christine Stabell ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

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

Author keywords

Infant mortality; Neonate; Non specific effect; Oral polio vaccine; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; PLACEBO; RETINOL;

ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; BIRTH; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLIOMYELITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCAR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

BCG VACCINE; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLIOVIRUS VACCINE, ORAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEX FACTORS; VACCINATION; VITAMIN A;

EID: 84867467104     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.08.055     Document Type: Article

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