Likely health outcomes for untreated acute febrile illness in the tropics in decision and economic models; a Delphi survey.

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Published in PLoS One on February 24, 2011

Authors

Yoel Lubell1, Sarah G Staedke, Brian M Greenwood, Moses R Kamya, Malcolm Molyneux, Paul N Newton, Hugh Reyburn, Robert W Snow, Umberto D'Alessandro, Mike English, Nick Day, Peter Kremsner, Arjen Dondorp, Wilfred Mbacham, Grant Dorsey, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Kathryn Maitland, Sanjeev Krishna, Charles Newton, Geoffrey Pasvol, Terrie Taylor, Lorenz von Seidlein, Nicholas J White, Fred Binka, Anne Mills, Christopher J M Whitty

Author Affiliations

1: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. yoel@tropmedres.ac

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