Randomised placebo-controlled trial of iron supplementation and malaria chemoprophylaxis for prevention of severe anaemia and malaria in Tanzanian infants.

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Published in Lancet on September 20, 1997

Authors

C Menendez1, E Kahigwa, R Hirt, P Vounatsou, J J Aponte, F Font, C J Acosta, D M Schellenberg, C M Galindo, J Kimario, H Urassa, B Brabin, T A Smith, A Y Kitua, M Tanner, P L Alonso

Author Affiliations

1: Unidad de Epidemiologia y Bioestadistica, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain. cmenende@medicina.ub.es

Associated clinical trials:

Reducing the Effects of Malaria in Children by Administering Repeated Preventive Doses | NCT00167843

Intermittent Treatment With Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for Malaria Control in Infants | NCT00206739

Intermittent Antimalaria Treatment With SP in African Children | NCT00168948

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