An oral preparation of Lactobacillus acidophilus for the treatment of uncomplicated acute watery diarrhoea in Vietnamese children: study protocol for a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

Table 1 Clinical and laboratory data collection

	Admission	Daily	Discharge	Follow-up
Physical examination	✓	✓	✓	✓
Assessment of dehydration	✓	✓	✓	✓
Assessment of diarrhoea	✓	✓	✓	✓
Data collection	✓	✓	✓	✓
Faecal sample	✓		✓*	✓*
Faecal or rectal swab		✓	✓*	✓*
Blood sample (3 ml) (biochemistry/haematology and viral polymerase chain reaction)	✓

* If the participant cannot produce a stool sample on discharge, a faecal or rectal swab will be collected instead.

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