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A ten year review of the sickle cell program in Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania
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Background
Africa has the highest burden of Sickle cell disease (SCD) but there are few large, systematic studies providing reliable descriptions of the disease spectrum. Tanzania, with 11,000 SCD births annually, established the Muhimbili Sickle Cell program aiming to improve understanding of SCD in Africa. We report the profile of SCD seen in the first 10 years at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH).
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Individuals seen at MNH kno...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/s12878-018-0125-0
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+ Wellcome Trust
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Snow, RW
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Principal Fellowship 103602
Strategic award 084538
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central
- Journal:
- BMC Hematology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 33
- Publication date:
- 2018-11-14
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-10-16
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2052-1839
- Pmid:
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30459954
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English
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pubs:946605
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uuid:29dcd15e-852f-48f0-90e7-4dbf50d22486
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pubs:946605
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946605
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2018-12-11
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- Makani et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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