Zinc supplementation for the treatment of measles in children

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Awotiwon, Ajibola A ^a   Oduwole, Olabisi ^b   Sinha, Anju ^c   Okwundu, Charles I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

^c INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DATA SYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; MEASLES; MINERAL SUPPLEMENTATION; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 85048479287     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011177     Document Type: Article

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