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The infected children were randomly assigned to receive treatment (albendazole) or a placebo. All children were given cognitive tests on enrolment and 14 weeks later. These included verbal fluency (generation of ideas), digit span (working memory), number choice (speed of processing of visual stimuli), visual search (sustained attention) and a French Vocabulary test (paired-associate learning). At baseline, the infected children had lower scores than the uninfected ones in fluency (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>= 0\u00b701), search (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>= 0\u00b702) and French (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>= 0\u00b701). Treatment effects were examined among infected children and there was no significant treatment effect for any of the tests. However, there was a significant treatment by weight-for-age interaction in fluency (P &lt; 0\u00b705). 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