Population deworming every 6 months with albendazole in 1 million pre-school children in north India: DEVTA, a cluster-randomised trial

The Lancet

Volumn 381, Issue 9876, 2013, Pages 1478-1486

  Awasthi, Shally ^a   Peto, Richard ^b   Read, Simon ^b   Richards, Susan M ^b   Pande, Vinod ^a   Bundy, Donald ^c  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; RETINOL ACETATE;

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEWABLE TABLET; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEMATODE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WORM EGG;

EID: 84877582667     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62126-6     Document Type: Article

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