The non-specific effects of vaccines and other childhood interventions: the contribution of INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems

Live Vaccine Against Measles, Mumps, and Rubella and the Risk of Hospital Admissions for Nontargeted Infections

(2014) Signe Sørup et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Vitamin A supplementation every 6 months with retinol in 1 million pre-school children in north India: DEVTA, a cluster-randomised trial

(2013) Shally Awasthi et al.   LANCET

A small jab – a big effect: nonspecific immunomodulation by vaccines

(2013) Christine S. Benn et al.   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Non-specific sex-differential effect of DTP vaccination may partially explain the excess girl child mortality in Ballabgarh, India

(2013) A. Krishnan et al.   TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

Bacille Calmette-Guerin induces NOD2-dependent nonspecific protection from reinfection via epigenetic reprogramming of monocytes

(2012) J. Kleinnijenhuis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Non-specific effects of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and measles vaccinations? An analysis of surveillance data from Navrongo, Ghana

(2012) Paul Welaga et al.   TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

Non-specific and sex-differential effects of vaccinations on child survival in rural western India

(2012) Siddhivinayak Hirve et al.   VACCINE

The optimal age of measles immunisation in low-income countries: a secondary analysis of the assumptions underlying the current policy

(2012) Peter Aaby et al.   BMJ Open

Testing the hypothesis that diphtheria–tetanus–pertussis vaccine has negative non-specific and sex-differential effects on child survival in high-mortality countries

(2012) Peter Aaby et al.   BMJ Open

Smallpox vaccination and all-cause infectious disease hospitalization: a Danish register-based cohort study

(2011) Signe Sørup et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Randomized Trial of BCG Vaccination at Birth to Low-Birth-Weight Children: Beneficial Nonspecific Effects in the Neonatal Period?

(2011) Peter Aaby et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Small Randomized Trial Among Low–birth-weight Children Receiving Bacillus Calmette-Guéerin Vaccination at First Health Center Contact

(2011) Sofie Biering-Sørensen et al.   PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

The non-specific effects of vaccines

(2010) F. Shann   ARCHIVES OF DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD

Does vitamin A supplementation interact with routine vaccinations? An analysis of the Ghana Vitamin A Supplementation Trial

(2009) Christine S Benn et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

The effect of high-dose vitamin A supplementation administered with BCG vaccine at birth may be modified by subsequent DTP vaccination

(2009) Christine Stabell Benn et al.   VACCINE

Effect of 50 000 IU vitamin A given with BCG vaccine on mortality in infants in Guinea-Bissau: randomised placebo controlled trial

(2008) Christine Stabell Benn et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal