Oral polio vaccine influences the immune response to BCG vaccination. A natural experiment.
Oral polio vaccine (OPV) is recommended to be given at birth together with BCG vaccine. While we were conducting two trials including low-birth-weight (LBW) and normal-birth-weight (NBW) infants in Guinea-Bissau, OPV was not available during some periods and therefore some infants did not receive OP...
Main Authors: | Erliyani Sartono, Ida M Lisse, Elisabeth M Terveer, Paula J M van de Sande, Hilton Whittle, Ane B Fisker, Adam Roth, Peter Aaby, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, Christine S Benn |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-05-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2873948?pdf=render |
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