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

Awasthi, S.; Peto, R.; Pande, V.K.; Fletcher, R.H.; Read, S.; Bundy, D.A.P.

Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases 2(4): e223

2008


ISSN/ISBN: 1935-2727
PMID: 18414647
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000223
Document Number: 200516
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.

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