Treatment-seeking behaviour for febrile illness in an area of seasonal malaria transmission in rural Ethiopia
Open Access
- 26 April 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Malaria Journal
- Vol. 6 (1) , 49
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-6-49
Abstract
Very little is known about the management of malaria and treatment-seeking patterns among children and adults in areas of seasonal malaria transmission particularly in east Africa.Keywords
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