Interventions to improve excreta disposal for preventing diarrhoea

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Clasen, Thomas F ^a   Bostoen, K ^b   Schmidt, W P ^b   Boisson, S ^b   Fung, I C H ^b   Jenkins, M W ^b   Scott, B ^b   Sugden, S ^b   Cairncross, S ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEFECATION; DIARRHEA; EXCRETION; FECES; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SANITATION; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 44949197870     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007180     Document Type: Review

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