Combining drinking water treatment and hand washing for diarrhoea prevention, a cluster randomised controlled trial
@article{Luby2006CombiningDW, title={Combining drinking water treatment and hand washing for diarrhoea prevention, a cluster randomised controlled trial}, author={Stephen P. Luby and Mubina Agboatwalla and John A. Painter and Arshad Altaf and W. L. Billhimer and Bruce H. Keswick and Robert M Hoekstra}, journal={Tropical Medicine \& International Health}, year={2006}, volume={11} }
Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of point of use water treatment with flocculent‐disinfectant on reducing diarrhoea and the additional benefit of promoting hand washing with soap.
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