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Malaria-related mortality based on verbal autopsy in an area of low endemicity in a predominantly rural population in Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Although malaria is one of the most important causes of death in Ethiopia, measuring the magnitude of malaria-attributed deaths at community level poses a considerable difficulty. Nevertheless, despite its low sensitivity and specificity, verbal autopsy (VA) has been the most important t...

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Autores principales: Deressa, Wakgari, Fantahun, Mesganaw, Ali, Ahmed
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2039745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17883879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-6-128