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Does oral polio vaccine have non-specific effects on all-cause mortality? Natural experiments within a randomised controlled trial of early measles vaccine

BACKGROUND: BCG and measles vaccine (MV) may have beneficial non-specific effects (NSEs). If an unplanned intervention with a vaccine (a natural experiment) modifies the estimated effect in a randomised controlled trial (RCT), this suggests NSEs. We used this approach to test NSEs of triple oral pol...

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Autores principales: Aaby, Peter, Andersen, Andreas, Martins, Cesário L, Fisker, Ane B, Rodrigues, Amabelia, Whittle, Hilton C, Benn, Christine S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5223718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28011813
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013335