Short-term impact of an acute attack of malaria on the cognitive performance of schoolchildren living in a malaria-endemic area of Sri Lanka.

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

• Publication date

  2003-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)80093-7PMID 16117954
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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