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Mortality attributable to Plasmodium vivax malaria: a clinical audit from Papua, Indonesia.

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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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10.1186/s12916-014-0217-z

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Publisher:
BioMed Central
Journal:
BMC medicine More from this journal
Volume:
12
Issue:
1
Pages:
217
Publication date:
2014-01-01
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EISSN:
1741-7015
ISSN:
1741-7015
Language:
English
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pubs:506011
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uuid:c719d278-17d3-4232-9c5f-02cd9cb4bb9e
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506011
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2015-11-16

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