Study to Test Whether Shoes Protect Children Against Hookworm Infection on Pemba Island, Zanzibar

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Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2011
Small association studies have hypothesised that shoes protect against hookworm infection. The purpose of this pragmatic study was determine, under field conditions, whether school-age children on Pemba Island, Zanzibar, would wear shoes and if shoes protected them against hookworm infection.
Epistemonikos ID: d0f369f0cbe89ae197dd71185916f2e0d30ff0ae
First added on: May 11, 2024