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Is chronic malnutrition associated with an increase in malaria incidence? A cohort study in children aged under 5 years in rural Gambia

BACKGROUND: Malnutrition is common in children in sub-Saharan Africa and is thought to increase the risk of infectious diseases, including malaria. The relationship between malnutrition and malaria was examined in a cohort of 6–59 month-old children in rural Gambia, in an area of seasonal malaria tr...

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Autores principales: Wilson, Anne L., Bradley, John, Kandeh, Ballah, Salami, Kolawole, D’Alessandro, Umberto, Pinder, Margaret, Lindsay, Steven W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6090805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30081945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-3026-y