Effects of Deworming on Malnourished Preschool Children in India: An Open-Labelled, Cluster-Randomized Trial
PLoS neglected tropical diseasesPublished 15 April 2008Open access
Shally Awasthi, Richard Peto, Vinod Kumar Pande, Robert H. Fletcher, Simon Read, Donald A. P. Bundy
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In such urban slums in the 1990s, five 6-monthly rounds of single dose anthelmintic treatment of malnourished, poor children initially aged 1–5 years results in substantial weight gain.
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ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00396500.
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