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Effects of deworming on malnourished preschool children in India: an open-labelled, cluster-randomized trial

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BACKGROUND: More than a third of the world's children are infected with intestinal nematodes. Current control approaches emphasise treatment of school age children, and there is a lack of information on the effects of deworming preschool children. METHODOLOGY: We studied the effects on the heights and weights of 3,935 children, initially 1 to 5 years of age, of five rounds of anthelmintic treatment (400 mg albendazole) administered every 6 months over 2 years. The children lived in 50 areas, ...

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Peer review status:
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0000223

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Nuffield Department of Population Health
Sub department:
Clinical Trial Service Unit
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
Journal:
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases More from this journal
Volume:
2
Issue:
4
Pages:
e223
Publication date:
2008-04-16
Acceptance date:
2008-03-12
DOI:
EISSN:
1935-2735
ISSN:
1935-2727
Language:
English
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uuid:a04e9bff-2458-47c0-97e0-0bbe2c7b6d22
Local pid:
pubs:41022
Source identifiers:
41022
Deposit date:
2012-12-19

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