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The effect of iron-fortified complementary food and intermittent preventive treatment of malaria on anaemia in 12- to 36-month-old children: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Iron deficiency (ID) and malaria co-exist in tropical regions and both contribute to high rates of anaemia in young children. It is unclear whether iron fortification combined with intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) of malaria would be an efficacious strategy for reducing anaemia in...

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Autores principales: Glinz, Dominik, Hurrell, Richard F., Ouattara, Mamadou, Zimmermann, Michael B., Brittenham, Gary M., Adiossan, Lukas G., Righetti, Aurélie A., Seifert, Burkhardt, Diakité, Victorine G., Utzinger, Jürg, N’Goran, Eliézer K., Wegmüller, Rita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4573684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26377199
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-0872-3