Predicting mortality for paediatric inpatients where malaria is uncommon.

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Published in Arch Dis Child on August 07, 2012

Authors

Dana C Clifton1, Habib O Ramadhani, Levina J Msuya, Boniface N Njau, Grace D Kinabo, Ann M Buchanan, John A Crump

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

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