The general population cohort in rural south-western Uganda: a platform for communicable and non-communicable disease studies.

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Published in Int J Epidemiol on January 30, 2013

Authors

Gershim Asiki1, Georgina Murphy, Jessica Nakiyingi-Miiro, Janet Seeley, Rebecca N Nsubuga, Alex Karabarinde, Laban Waswa, Sam Biraro, Ivan Kasamba, Cristina Pomilla, Dermot Maher, Elizabeth H Young, Anatoli Kamali, Manjinder S Sandhu, GPC team

Author Affiliations

1: Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute (MRC/UVRI), Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda. gershim@gmail.com

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