Vendor-to-vendor education to improve malaria treatment by private drug outlets in Bungoma District, Kenya
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* Corresponding author: Paula Tavrow ptavrow@ucla.edu
Malaria Journal 2003, 2:10 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-2-10
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