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Beyond Lassa Fever: Systemic and structural barriers to disease detection and response in Sierra Leone

BACKGROUND: Lassa fever (LF) often presents clinically as undifferentiated febrile illness. Lassa Fever cases in Sierra Leone have been falling since the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic. Data from other LF endemic countries suggest that this is not a true reflection of local epidemiological decline, but ra...

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Autor principal:	Rohan, Hana
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2022
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9159599/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35587495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010423

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