In rural Tanzania, babies born with low birth weight are less likely to miss their first DTP shot on time compared to babies with normal birth weight.

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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 didn’t even look at babies' birth weight, so it can’t say whether low-weight babies are more or less likely to get their vaccines on time.

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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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