Mobile Phone Text Messaging: Tool for Malaria Control in Africa

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2012 Feb 25

PMID 22363212

Citations 63

Authors

Dejan Zurovac

Ambrose O Talisuna

Robert W Snow

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