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. 2007 Jul;100(7):343-5.
doi: 10.1177/014107680710000720.

Why the MRC randomized trials of whooping cough (pertussis) vaccines remain important more than half a century after they were done

T Jefferson  1
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Why the MRC randomized trials of whooping cough (pertussis) vaccines remain important more than half a century after they were done

T Jefferson. J R Soc Med. 2007 Jul.
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Meta-analytical representation of the effectiveness of whole-cell vaccines against pertussis (wP) reported in the 1951 MRC trial. The detected heterogeneity is due to different vaccine effectiveness, as population, background risk and study design are the same for all vaccine arms. Based on Jefferson et al., 2003
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