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Population deworming every 6 months with albendazole in 1 million pre-school children in North India: DEVTA, a cluster-randomised trial.
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BACKGROUND: In north India many pre-school children are underweight, many have intestinal worms, and 2-3% die at ages 1·0-6·0 years. We used the state-wide Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) infrastructure to help to assess any effects of regular deworming on mortality.
METHODS: Participants in this cluster-randomised study were children in catchment areas of 8338 ICDS-staffed village child-care centres (under-5 population 1 million) in 72 administ...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- Lancet More from this journal
- Volume:
- 381
- Issue:
- 9876
- Pages:
- 1478-1486
- Publication date:
- 2013-04-01
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1474-547X
- ISSN:
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0140-6736
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English
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2013-11-16
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- Copyright date:
- 2013
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- Copyright 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Re-use of this article is permitted in accordance with the Terms and Conditions set out at http://www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/
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