Hypothesis: Vitamin A supplementation and childhood mortality: amplification of the non-specific effects of vaccines?

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  International Journal of Epidemiology

• Publication date

  2003-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1093/IJE/DYG208PMID 14559758
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