In rural Tanzania, babies born small are actually less likely to miss their vaccines than babies born at a normal weight — the opposite of what’s seen in most other poor countries.

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Determinants of delayed or incomplete diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccination in parallel urban and rural birth cohorts of 30,956 infants in Tanzania

Cohort Study

Human

2019 Feb 26

The study looked at why babies in rural Tanzania didn’t get their vaccines on time, but it never mentioned how much the babies weighed at birth — so it can’t say whether low-weight babies are more or less likely to be vaccinated.

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Determinants of delayed or incomplete diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccination in parallel urban and rural birth cohorts of 30,956 infants in Tanzania

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DOI: 10.1186/s12879-019-3828-3

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