Name: Non-specific effects of vaccination
Creator: Frank Shann
Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 3. Good health

Vaccines have non-specific (heterologous) effects

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 07 Apr 2005 English Publisher:BMJJournal:BMJ, volume 330, page 844.1 (issn: 0959-8138, eissn: 1468-5833,

Authors: Frank Shann;

doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7495.844

Non-specific effects of vaccination

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EDITOR—I support Fine's plea that we review the optimal immunisation schedule in developing countries using evidence from controlled trials rather than observational data.1 There are almost no controlled trials of the effect on mortality from all causes for any of the vaccines in the World Health Organization's schedule. Fine …

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