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Cultural Understanding of Wounds, Buruli Ulcers and Their Management at the Obom Sub-district of the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana
BACKGROUND: This study was conducted with the aim to understand some of the cultural belief systems in the management of wounds and patients practices that could contaminate wounds at the Obom sub-district of the Ga South Municipality of Ghana. METHODS: This was an ethnographic study using in-depth...
Autores principales: | Koka, Eric, Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy, Okyere, Daniel, Adongo, Philip Baba, Ahorlu, Collins K. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4954709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27438292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004825 |
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