Treatment with a single dose of albendazole improves growth of Kenyan schoolchildren with hookworm, Trichuris trichiura, and Ascaris lumbricoides infections.

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• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

• Publication date

  1989-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4269/AJTMH.1989.41.78PMID 2764230
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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