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Sex-Differential Effect on Infant Mortality of Oral Polio Vaccine Administered with BCG at Birth in Guinea-Bissau. A Natural Experiment
BACKGROUND: The policy to provide oral polio vaccine (OPV) at birth was introduced in low-income countries to increase coverage. The effect of OPV at birth on overall child mortality was never studied. During a trial of vitamin A supplementation (VAS) at birth in Guinea-Bissau, OPV was not available...
Autores principales: | Benn, Christine Stabell, Fisker, Ane Bærent, Rodrigues, Amabelia, Ravn, Henrik, Sartono, Erliyani, Whittle, Hilton, Yazdanbakhsh, Maria, Aaby, Peter |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605256/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19112511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004056 |
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