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Vitamin A deficiency and child blindness in the developing world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

A. Pirie
Affiliation:
Xerophthalmia Club, 31 Observatory Street, Oxford OX2 6EW
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Abstract

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Type
Symposium on ‘Vitamin A in Nutrition and Disease’
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1983

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