Community concepts of malaria-related illness with and without convulsions in southern Ghana
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* Corresponding author: Mitchell G Weiss mitchell-G.Weiss@unibas.ch
Malaria Journal 2005, 4:47 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-4-47
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