Incidence and characteristics of bacteremia among children in rural Ghana.

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Published in PLoS One on September 10, 2012

Authors

Maja Verena Nielsen1, Nimako Sarpong, Ralf Krumkamp, Denise Dekker, Wibke Loag, Solomon Amemasor, Alex Agyekum, Florian Marks, Frank Huenger, Anne Caroline Krefis, Ralf Matthias Hagen, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Jürgen May, Norbert Georg Schwarz

Author Affiliations

1: Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany. maja.v.nielsen@googlemail.com

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