Malaria-attributed death rates in India - Authors' reply

The Lancet

Volumn 377, Issue 9770, 2011, Pages 994-995

  Sharma, Vinod P ^a   Jha, Prabhat ^b   Dhingra, Neeraj ^c   Jotkar, Raju M ^b,d   Peto, Richard ^e  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c National AIDS Control Organization   (India)

^d ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMAN; INDIA; LETTER; MALARIA; MORTALITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SYMPTOM;

EID: 79952743587     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60383-8     Document Type: Letter

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