The age patterns of severe malaria syndromes in sub-Saharan Africa across a range of transmission intensities and seasonality settings.

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Published in Malar J on October 13, 2010

Authors

Arantxa Roca-Feltrer1, Ilona Carneiro, Lucy Smith, Joanna Rm Armstrong Schellenberg, Brian Greenwood, David Schellenberg

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Disease, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK. arantxa.roca-feltrer@lshtm.ac.uk

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