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A. de Francisco
Researcher at International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Publications - 12
Citations - 409
A. de Francisco is an academic researcher from International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Vitamin. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 12 publications receiving 394 citations.
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Breast milk immune factors in Bangladeshi women supplemented postpartum with retinol or β-carotene
S M Filteau,Amy L. Rice,J J Ball,Jyotsnamoy Chakraborty,Rebecca J. Stoltzfus,A. de Francisco,J F Willumsen +6 more
TL;DR: Postpartum vitamin A supplementation does not increase milk concentrations of immune factors and neither retinol nor beta-carotene supplementation affected the prevalence of increased mammary permeability.
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Evaluation of serum retinol, the modified-relative-dose-response ratio, and breast-milk vitamin A as indicators of response to postpartum maternal vitamin A supplementation
TL;DR: Breast-milk vitamin A and the MRDR ratio are responsive indicators of vitamin A status, especially in women with mild vitamin A deficiency, and the most responsive indicator was the measurement of breast-milks vitamin A per gram of fat in casual breast-Milk samples.
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Acute toxicity of vitamin A given with vaccines in infancy.
A. de Francisco,Jyotsnamoy Chakraborty,Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury,Mohammad Yunus,Abdullah H Baqui,A. K. Siddique,R.B. Sack +6 more
TL;DR: There was a tendency towards a cumulative effect of toxicity with increasing doses of vitamin A supplementation, and 11 infants supplemented with vitamin A had episodes of bulging of the fontanelle as opposed to 1 in the placebo group.
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Bulging fontanelle after supplementation with 25 000 IU of vitamin A in infancy using immunization contacts
Abdullah H Baqui,Abdullah H Baqui,A. de Francisco,Shams El Arifeen,A. K. Siddique,R. B. Sack +5 more
TL;DR: The finding that increased numbers of vitamin A doses were associated with a higher probability of bulging of the fontanelle suggests a cumulative effect.
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Flood control embankments contribute to the improvement of the health status of children in rural Bangladesh.
TL;DR: The Demographic Surveillance System of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) was used to assess the effect of a flood control programme on the mortality of 0-4-year-old children residing in the Matlab study area and health interventions contributed to a 40% reduction in mortality among children less than 5 years of age.