•Infants age 7-120 days in India with
bacterial infection
(pneumonia, sepsis, meningitis)
•Rx Antibiotics or Antibiotics
+ Zn 10 mg/day
•Outcome – treatment failure (change of Ab,
intensive care
or death)
•Treatment Failure
Antibiotics
alone 17%
Antibiotics
+ Zn 10%
•44% of babies had serum Zn <9.2 umol/l
– marked deficiency
•Similar benefits in other studies in
pneumonia and diarrhoea