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

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.We studied the effects on the heights and weights of 3,935 c...

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Main Authors: Shally Awasthi, Richard Peto, Vinod K Pande, Robert H Fletcher, Simon Read, Donald A P Bundy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-04-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2291568?pdf=render