Causes of childhood deaths in Bangladesh: results of a nationwide verbal autopsy study.

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Published in Bull World Health Organ on January 01, 1998

Authors

A H Baqui1, R E Black, S E Arifeen, K Hill, S N Mitra, A al Sabir

Author Affiliations

1: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.

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