High-dose vitamin A supplementation administered with vaccinations after 6 months of age: Sex-differential adverse reactions and morbidity

Vaccine

Volumn 31, Issue 31, 2013, Pages 3191-3198

  Fisker, Ane Bærent ^a,b,c   Bale, Carlito ^a   Jørgensen, Mathias Jul ^a,b   Balde, Ibriama ^a   Hornshøj, Linda ^a   Bibby, Bo Martin ^c   Aaby, Peter ^a,b   Benn, Christine Stabell ^a,b  

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

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adverse reactions; Vaccines; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; PLACEBO; RETINOL; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; FONTANEL; HUMAN; INFANT; INJECTION SITE REACTION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN INDURATION; VACCINATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MORBIDITY; SEX FACTORS; VACCINES; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VACCINES, INACTIVATED; VITAMIN A;

EID: 84879074468     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.04.072     Document Type: Article

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