Revaccination with Live Attenuated Vaccines Confer Additional Beneficial Nonspecific Effects on Overall Survival: A Review
•Live vaccines may have beneficial nonspecific effect protecting against more than the target disease.•Revaccination with vaccines against measles, tuberculosis, polio and smallpox should have limited effect on survival.•Nonetheless, revaccination with these vaccines indicate major reductions in all...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5006692/ |