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SUBMITTER: Amza A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3541724 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Amza Abdou A Kadri Boubacar B Nassirou Baido B Stoller Nicole E NE Yu Sun N SN Zhou Zhaoxia Z West Sheila K SK Mabey David C W DCW Bailey Robin L RL Keenan Jeremy D JD Porco Travis C TC Lietman Thomas M TM Gaynor Bruce D BD
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20121203 1
Antimicrobials are used primarily to treat infectious disease, but they have other effects. Here, we assess anthropometry measurements in children 6-60 months in 24 communities randomized to one or two mass azithromycin distributions over a 1-year period in Niger. We compared the prevalence of wasting, low mid-upper arm circumference, stunting, and underweight in communities in the two treatment arms. We were unable to prove that there was a difference in the prevalence of wasting in the 12 comm ...[more]