Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 68-74 , January 2010

Nutrition intervention and adequate hygiene practices to improve iron status of vulnerable preschool Burkinabe children

  • Dia Sanou, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Département des sciences des aliments et de nutrition, Faculté des sciences de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
    • Laboratoire national de santé publique, Ministère de la santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
    • ,
  • Huguette Turgeon-O'Brien, Dt.P. Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Département des sciences des aliments et de nutrition, Faculté des sciences de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
    • ,
  • Thérèse Desrosiers, Dt.P. Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Département des sciences des aliments et de nutrition, Faculté des sciences de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +418-656-2131, ext. 5469; fax: +418-656-3353.

Received 16 June 2008 ,Accepted 18 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2009.05.017

Nutrition
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