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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 reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000223
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- Public Library of Science
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- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases More from this journal
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- e223
- Publication date:
- 2008-04-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2008-03-12
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1935-2735
- ISSN:
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1935-2727
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English
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41022
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2012-12-19
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- Awasthi et al
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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- © 2008 Awasthi et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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