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Impact of 4.0% chlorhexidine cleansing of the umbilical cord on mortality and omphalitis among newborns of Sylhet, Bangladesh: design of a community-based cluster randomized trial

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends dry cord care for newborns but this recommendation may not be optimal in low resource settings where most births take place in an unclean environment and infections account for up to half of neonatal deaths. A previous trial in Nepal indicated tha...

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Autores principales: Mullany, Luke C, El Arifeen, Shams, Winch, Peter J, Shah, Rasheduzzaman, Mannan, Ishtiaq, Rahman, Syed M, Rahman, Mohammad R, Darmstadt, Gary L, Ahmed, Saifuddin, Santosham, Mathuram, Black, Robert E, Baqui, Abdullah H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2770449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19845951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-9-67