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SUBMITTER: Cassa Macedo A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6673706 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cassa Macedo Arthur A Oliveira Vilela de Faria André A Ghezzi Pietro P
Frontiers in medicine 20190725
<b>Background:</b> The concept that one can "boost" immunity is a popular one. Although the only evidence-based approach to this is vaccination, the lay public is exposed to a wide range of information on how to boost immunity. The aim of this study was to analyze such information available on the Internet. <b>Methods and findings:</b> We visited 185 webpages returned from a Google search on "boost immunity" and classified them by typology (blogs, commercial, government, no-profit, news, profess ...[more]