A protocol for a proof-of-concept randomized control trial testing increased protein quantity and quality in ready-to-use therapeutic food in improving linear growth among 6-23-month-old children with severe wasting in Malawi

• Isabel Potani,

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

  Affiliations Translational Medicine Program, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Allison I. Daniel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Translational Medicine Program, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Independent Nutrition Consultant, Toronto, Canada

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• André Briend,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Child Health Research, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland, Department of Nutrition, Exercise, and Sports, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Glenda Courtney-Martin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• James A. Berkley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Clinical Research Department, Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

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• Wieger Voskuijl,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi, Amsterdam Universtair Medische Centra, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Centre for Global Child Health, Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Laura Vresk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

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• Celine Bourdon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Translational Medicine Program, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

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• Sylvester Kathumba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Emmie Mbale,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Robert H. J. Bandsma

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

  * E-mail: robert.bandsma@sickkids.ca

  Affiliations Translational Medicine Program, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6358-4750

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