Non-specific Effects of Vaccines and Stunting: Timing May Be Essential

EBioMedicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2016, Pages 341-348

  Berendsen, Mike L T ^a,b   Smits, Jeroen ^b   Netea, Mihai G ^a   van der Ven, André ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Non specific effects; Policy; Stunting; Time dependency; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEMOGLOBIN; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FETUS GROWTH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANCY; INTERVIEW; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STUNTING; VACCINATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; ODDS RATIO; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; TIME FACTOR;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 84971597314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23523964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2016.05.010     Document Type: Article

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