Child mortality and malaria transmission intensity in Africa.

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Published in Trends Parasitol on March 01, 2001

Authors

T A Smith1, R Leuenberger, C Lengeler

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1: Swiss Tropical Institute, Socinstrasse 57, PO Box CH-4002, Basel, Switzerland. thomas-a.smith@unibas.ch

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