Sentence examples for course of zinc from inspiring English sources

A recent meta-analysis demonstrated that a two-week course of zinc tablets once daily significantly reduces the severity and duration of diarrhoea and mortality in young children (Bhutta et al., 2000.

Since 2004, UNICEF and WHO have recommended a course of zinc tablets to be combined with Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) for the treatment of the disease.

We assumed that one kit – including a 10 day course of zinc and 2 sachets of ORS – would be used to treat a diarrheal episode with an adherence rate at least as good as the adherence in prior efficacy studies.

The PSI ORASEL KIT® contains two sachets of low-osmolarity oral rehydration salts (ORS) and one course of zinc treatment (10 tablets of 20 mg), in accordance with WHO and UNICEF recommendations and protocol for the treatment of diarrhea in children under the age of five (UNICEF stipulates a 10 14 day regimen) [ 9].

In another randomized placebo controlled study to assess the use of 10-day course of zinc bacitracin capsules in enteric eradication of VRE, only 2 (33%) of 6 patients in each group were VRE negative after 3 weeks suggesting that there was no difference in eradication rate of VRE in the zinc bacitracin and the control group [ 10].

In-depth and semi-structured interviews with parents, community health workers, and traditional healers were conducted to examine the household management of diarrhoea in the Sikasso region of southern Mali in preparation for the introduction of a short-course of daily zinc for childhood diarrhoea at the community level.

A 16 K oligonucleotide microarray was employed to quantify global transcript changes within zebrafish gill during a 14-day time course of acclimation to zinc supplemented diet and water.

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The formation of these pores may be due to liberation of gaseous nitrogen oxides in the course of the heat treatment of zinc nitrate added.

We have studied the 14-day time-course of changes in gene expression of zinc transporters in gills of zebrafish treated with zinc depletion or supplementation in water and diet [ 10, 11].

Leachates were analyzed for Zn with ICP-AES and the total quantity of zinc leached over the course of leaching was calculated.