Does BCG have non-specific effects on childhood mortality?

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Lone G Stensballe. BMJ. 2017.

. 2017 Feb 10:356:j700.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.j700.

¹ The Child and Adolescent Clinic 4072, Juliane Marie Centret, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.

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