Maternal and birth attendant hand washing and neonatal mortality in southern Nepal.

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

• Publication date

  2008-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1001/archpedi.162.7.603PMID 18606930PMCID PMC2587156
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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