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BACKGROUND: Plasmodium vivax causes almost half of all malaria cases in Asia and is recognised as a significant cause of morbidity. In recent years it has been associated with severe and fatal disease. The extent to which P. vivax contributes to death is not known. METHODS: To define the epidemiology of mortality attributable to vivax malaria in southern Papua, Indonesia, a retrospective clinical records-based audit was conducted of all deaths in patients with vivax malaria at a tertiary refe...
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- BioMed Central Publisher's website
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- BMC medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 217
- Chapter number:
- ARTN 217
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
- DOI:
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1741-7015
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1741-7015
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uuid:c719d278-17d3-4232-9c5f-02cd9cb4bb9e
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- Copyright holder:
- Douglas et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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Copyright © 2014 Douglas et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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Mortality attributable to Plasmodium vivax malaria: a clinical audit from Papua, Indonesia.
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