Child mortality patterns in rural Tanzania: an observational study on the impact of malaria control interventions.

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Published in Int J Epidemiol on December 19, 2013

Authors

Sandra Alba1, Rose Nathan, Alexander Schulze, Hassan Mshinda, Christian Lengeler

Author Affiliations

1: Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), KIT Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, Basel, Switzerland, Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Switzerland and Faculty of Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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