The impact of maternal antenatal treatment with two doses of azithromycin and monthly sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine on child weight, mid-upper arm circumference and head circumference: A randomized controlled trial

Lotta Hallamaa; Yin Bun Cheung; Mari Luntamo; Ulla Ashorn; Teija Kulmala; Charles Mangani; Per Ashorn

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0216536

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The impact of maternal antenatal treatment with two doses of azithromycin and monthly sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine on child weight, mid-upper arm circumference and head circumference: A randomized controlled trial

Lotta Hallamaa ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: lotta.hallamaa@tuni.fi

Affiliation Center for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9211-3288

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Yin Bun Cheung,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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Mari Luntamo,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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Ulla Ashorn,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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Teija Kulmala,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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Charles Mangani,

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, College of Medicine Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
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Per Ashorn

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, Department of Paediatrics, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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The impact of maternal antenatal treatment with two doses of azithromycin and monthly sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine on child weight, mid-upper arm circumference and head circumference: A randomized controlled trial

Lotta Hallamaa,
Yin Bun Cheung,
Mari Luntamo,
Ulla Ashorn,
Teija Kulmala,
Charles Mangani,
Per Ashorn

Published: May 7, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216536

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