Efficacy of chlorhexidine application to umbilical cord on neonatal mortality in Pemba, Tanzania: a community-based randomised controlled trial

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2016, Pages e837-e844

  Sazawal, Sunil ^a,b   Dhingra, Usha ^a,b   Ali, Said M ^c   Dutta, Arup ^b,c   Deb, Saikat ^b,c   Ame, Shaali M ^c   Mkasha, Mkasha H ^d   Yadav, Ashish ^a   Black, Robert E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Center for Public Health Kinetics   (India)

^c Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri   (Tanzania)

^d and Children   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OMPHALITIS; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN REDNESS; SKIN SWELLING; TANZANIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL CORD; CAREGIVER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INDIAN OCEAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY; MOTHER; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL DEATH; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; SEPSIS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CAREGIVERS; CHLORHEXIDINE; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHERS; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL DEATH; RURAL POPULATION; SEPSIS; TANZANIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 84995380219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30223-6     Document Type: Article

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