Duration of protection against malaria and anaemia provided by intermittent preventive treatment in infants in Navrongo, Ghana.

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Published in PLoS One on May 21, 2008

Authors

Matthew Cairns1, Ilona Carneiro, Paul Milligan, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Timothy Awine, Roly Gosling, Brian Greenwood, Daniel Chandramohan

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. matthew.cairns@lshtm.ac.uk

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