South African Children's Understanding of AIDS and Flu: Investigating Conceptual Understanding of Cause, Treatment, and Prevention.

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  2009

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  Journal of Cognition and Culture

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  Unknown publication date

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  Medicine, Sociology, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1163/156770909X12518536414457PMID 20631923PMCID PMC2903074
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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