Vaccines for women for preventing neonatal tetanus

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Demicheli, Vittorio ^a   Barale, Antonella ^b   Rivetti, Alessandro ^a  

^a SSEpi SeREMI   (Italy)

^b ASL VC   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA TETANUS TOXOID; INFLUENZA VACCINE; PLACEBO; TETANUS TOXOID; DIPHTHERIA TETANUS VACCINE;

ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FETUS DEATH; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE ERYTHEMA; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INJECTION SITE SWELLING; MALAISE; MATERNAL DEATH; MYALGIA; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN TETANUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; ADULT; FEMALE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; TETANUS;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS VACCINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA VACCINES; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TETANUS; TETANUS TOXOID;

EID: 85003043770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002959.pub4     Document Type: Review

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