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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