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Comparison of the new World Health Organization growth standards and the National Center for Health Statistics growth reference regarding mortality of malnourished children treated in a 2006 nutrition program in Niger.

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OBJECTIVE: To compare the National Centre for Health Statistics (NCHS) international growth reference with the new World Health Organization (WHO) growth standards for identification of the malnourished (wasted) children most at risk o

Dale NM Grais RF Minetti A Miettola J Barengo NC
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine 2009 Feb ; 163(2); 126-30. doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2008.540. Epub 2009 02 19

Effect of preventive supplementation with ready-to-use therapeutic food on the nutritional status, mortality, and morbidity of children aged 6 to 60 months in Niger: a cluster randomized trial.

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CONTEXT: Ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTFs) are an important component of effective outpatient treatment of severe wasting.

Isanaka S Nombela N Djibo A Poupard M Van Beckhoven D Gaboulaud V Guerin PJ Grais RF
JAMA 2009 Jan 21; 301(3); 277-85. doi: 10.1001/jama.2008.1018. Epub 2009 01 23

Assessing the impact of the introduction of the World Health Organization growth standards and weight-for-height z-score criterion on the response to treatment of severe acute malnutrition in children: secondary data analysis.

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OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to assess the impact of adopting the World Health Organization growth standards and weight-for-height z-score criterion on the response to treatment of severe acute malnutrition in children com

Isanaka S Villamor E Shepherd S Grais RF
Pediatrics 2009 Jan ; 123(1); e54-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2008-1375. Epub 2009 02 06

An outbreak of yellow fever with concurrent chikungunya virus transmission in South Kordofan, Sudan, 2005.

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From September through December 2005, an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever occurred in South Kordofan, Sudan.

Gould LH Osman MS Farnon EC Griffith KS Godsey MS Karch S Mulenda B El Kholy A Grandesso F de Radiguès X Brair ME Briand S El Tayeb el SM Hayes EB Zeller H Perea W
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2008 Dec ; 102(12); 1247-54. doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.04.014. Epub 2008 05 27

Different methodological approaches to the assessment of in vivo efficacy of three artemisinin-based combination antimalarial treatments for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in African children.

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BACKGROUND: Use of different methods for assessing the efficacy of artemisinin-based combination antimalarial treatments (ACTs) will result in different estimates being reported, with implications for changes in treatment policy.

Ashley EA Pinoges L Turyakira E Dorsey G Checchi F Bukirwa H van den Broek I Zongo I Urruta PP van Herp M Balkan S Taylor WR Olliaro P Guthmann JP
Malaria journal 2008 Aug 09; 7 154. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-7-154. Epub 2008 08 09

The relationship between the haemoglobin concentration and the haematocrit in Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

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BACKGROUND: Malaria is a very important cause of anaemia in tropical countries. Anaemia is assessed either by measurement of the haematocrit or the haemoglobin concentration.

Lee SJ Stepniewska K Anstey N Ashley E Barnes K Binh TQ D'Alessandro U Day NP de Vries PJ Dorsey G Guthmann JP Mayxay M Newton P Nosten F Olliaro P Osario L Pinoges L Price R Rowland M Smithuis F Taylor R White NJ
Malaria journal 2008 Aug 02; 7 149. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-7-149. Epub 2008 08 02