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Incidence and admission rates for severe malaria and their impact on mortality in Africa

BACKGROUND: Appropriate treatment of life-threatening Plasmodium falciparum malaria requires in-patient care. Although the proportion of severe cases accessing in-patient care in endemic settings strongly affects overall case fatality rates and thus disease burden, this proportion is generally unkno...

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Autores principales: Camponovo, Flavia, Bever, Caitlin A., Galactionova, Katya, Smith, Thomas, Penny, Melissa A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5209951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28049519
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1650-6