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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
A. Pirie
Affiliation:
Xerophthalmia Club, 31 Observatory Street, Oxford OX2 6EW
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Symposium on ‘Vitamin A in Nutrition and Disease’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 53 - 64
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1983

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