Chlorhexidine and newborn omphalitis and mortality
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Chlorhexidine and newborn omphalitis and mortality - Authors' reply.
appreciable reductions in newborn mortality in low-income and middle-income countries. We said that two recent trials 9,10 did not provide evidence to alter current WHO guidelines, 7 which recommend it for infants born at home in environments with neonatal mortality rates of more than 30 per 1000 livebirths. We stand by this. DO does not work with but has been a co-author of six publications in...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Global Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2214-109X
DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(17)30052-9