Vitamin A deficiency: slow progress towards elimination.

Lancet Glob Health

Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.

Published: September 2015

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