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Improving childhood malaria treatment and referral practices by training patent medicine vendors in rural south-east Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Malaria remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children under five years of age in Nigeria. Most of the early treatments for fever and malaria occur through self-medication with anti-malarials bought over-the-counter (OTC) from untrained drug vendors. Self-medication thro...

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Autores principales: Okeke, Theodora A, Uzochukwu, Benjamin SC
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784476/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19930561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-260