Vitamin A supplementation for preventing death and illness in children 6 months to 5 years of age

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Damian K Francis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011.

. 2011 Jan 14;2011(8):ED000016.

doi: 10.1002/14651858.ED000016.

¹ Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Epidemiology Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

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Vitamin A supplementation for preventing morbidity and mortality in children from 6 months to 5 years of age.
Imdad A, Herzer K, Mayo-Wilson E, Yakoob MY, Bhutta ZA. Imdad A, et al. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Dec 8;(12):CD008524. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008524.pub2. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010. Update in: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2017 Mar 11;3:CD008524. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008524.pub3. PMID: 21154399 Updated.

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