RTS, S/AS01 malaria vaccine and child mortality

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 10005, 2015, Pages 1735-1736

  Aaby, Peter ^a   Rodrigues, Amabelia ^a,b   Kofoed, Poul Erik ^c   Benn, Christine Stabell ^b  

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

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c KOLDING HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE; RTS S AS01 MALARIA VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; FATALITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; FEMALE; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE;

EID: 84946087313     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00693-5     Document Type: Letter

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