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Village-Randomized Clinical Trial of Home Distribution of Zinc for Treatment of Childhood Diarrhea in Rural Western Kenya
BACKGROUND: Zinc treatment shortens diarrhea episodes and can prevent future episodes. In rural Africa, most children with diarrhea are not brought to health facilities. In a village-randomized trial in rural Kenya, we assessed if zinc treatment might have a community-level preventive effect on diar...
Autores principales: | Feikin, Daniel R., Bigogo, Godfrey, Audi, Allan, Pals, Sherri L., Aol, George, Mbakaya, Charles, Williamson, John, Breiman, Robert F., Larson, Charles P. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4023937/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24835009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094436 |
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