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

• Main Authors: Shally Awasthi (Author), Richard Peto (Author), Vinod K Pande (Author), Robert H Fletcher (Author), Simon Read (Author), Donald A P Bundy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...