Short communication: Negative spatial association between lymphatic filariasis and malaria in West Africa

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Tropical medicine & international health

• Publication date

  2006-02-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01558.xPMID 16451336
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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