Geography, Age and Anemia Shape Childhood Vaccine Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Geography, Age and Anemia Shape Childhood Vaccine Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa (1 of 4)

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African children's immune cells shift into focus. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 5, 2020, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.L. Hill at Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK; and colleagues was titled, "Immune system development varies according to age, location, and anemia in African children."

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Dr. Natalia Guimaraes Sampaio

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