Ready-to-use therapeutic food for catch-up growth in children after an episode of Plasmodium falciparum malaria: an open randomised controlled trial.

Catch-up growth after an infection is essential for children to maintain good nutritional status. To prevent malnutrition, WHO recommends that children are given one additional healthy meal per day during the 2 weeks after onset of illness. We investigated to what extent ready-to-use therapeutic foo...

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Main Authors: Saskia van der Kam, Todd Swarthout, Oscar Niragira, Alyson Froud, Eric Mukomena Sompwe, Clair Mills, Stephanie Roll, Peter Tinnemann, Leslie Shanks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3338820?pdf=render