The magnitude of the global problem of diarrhoeal disease: a ten-year update.

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Published in Bull World Health Organ on January 01, 1992

Authors

C Bern1, J Martines, I de Zoysa, R I Glass

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1: Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30333.

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