Household and socioeconomic factors associated with childhood febrile illnesses and treatment seeking behaviour in an area of epidemic malaria in rural Ethiopia.

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

• Publication date

  2007-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1016/J.TRSTMH.2007.04.018PMID 17602716
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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