Malaria in Pregnancy: What Can the Social Sciences Contribute?

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2007 Apr 7

PMID 17411326

Citations 29

Authors

Joan Muela Ribera

Susanna Hausmann-Muela

Umberto DAlessandro

Koen Peeters Grietens

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