Establishment of the MAL-ED birth cohort study site in Vellore, Southern India

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue , 2014, Pages S295-S299

  John, Sushil M ^a   Thomas, Rahul J ^b   Kaki, Shiny ^b   Sharma, Srujan L ^b   Ramanujam, Karthikeyan ^b   Raghava, Mohan V ^c   Koshy, Beena ^c   Bose, Anuradha ^c   Rose, Anuradha ^c   Rose, Winsley ^b   Ramachandran, Anup ^b   Joseph, A J ^b   Babji, Sudhir ^b   Kang, Gagandeep ^b  

^a Low Cost Effective Care Unit   (India)

^b CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c Department of Community Health ^*  (India)

Author keywords

birth cohort; India; MAL ED; malnutrition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INTESTINE INFECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MULTICENTER STUDY; RECALL BIAS; RISK FACTOR; SCIENTIST; STAFF TRAINING; URBAN POPULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MALNUTRITION;

EID: 84913548505     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu390     Document Type: Article

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