Malaria in Uganda: challenges to control on the long road to elimination: I. Epidemiology and current control efforts.

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Published in Acta Trop on March 21, 2011

Authors

Adoke Yeka1, Anne Gasasira, Arthur Mpimbaza, Jane Achan, Joaniter Nankabirwa, Sam Nsobya, Sarah G Staedke, Martin J Donnelly, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Ambrose Talisuna, Grant Dorsey, Moses R Kamya, Philip J Rosenthal

Author Affiliations

1: Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda.

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