Journal article
Effect of Vitamin A supplementation on the immune response to measles vaccination
Abstract
A randomized controlled trial was conducted in 395 infants aged 9-12 months to determine the effect of Vitamin A supplementation on concurrently administered measles vaccine. Antibody response was measured using the plaque reduction neutralization assay. No statistically significant differences were demonstrated between the immune response in Vitamin A supplemented and unsupplemented children. Unlike some recent studies, we were unable to …
Authors
Cherian T; Varkki S; Raghupathy P; Ratnam S; Chandra RK
Journal
Vaccine, Vol. 21, No. 19-20, pp. 2418–2420
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
June 2003
DOI
10.1016/s0264-410x(03)00060-4
ISSN
0264-410X