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    • Ready-to-use therapeutic food for Catch-up Growth in children after an episode of Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria: an open randomised controlled trial
      van der Kam, S; Swarthout, T; Niragira, O; Froud, A; Sompwe, E M; Mills, C; Roll, S; Tinnemann, P; Shanks, L; Médecins Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. saskia.vd.kam@amsterdam.msf.org (2012-04-25)
      Catch-up growth after an infection is essential for children to maintain good nutritional status. To prevent malnutrition, WHO recommends that children are given one additional healthy meal per day during the 2 weeks after onset of illness. We investigated to what extent ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) promotes catch-up growth in children after an acute, uncomplicated episode of Plasmodium falciparum malaria.