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Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology Volume 77, 1983 - Issue 3
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A case-control study in northern Liberia of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in haemoglobin S and β-thalassaemia traits

M. WillcoxThe Yekepa Clinical Research and Training Unit of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research and Roslagstull Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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A. BjörkmanThe Yekepa Clinical Research and Training Unit of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research and Roslagstull Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
,
J. BrohultThe Yekepa Clinical Research and Training Unit of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research and Roslagstull Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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P-O. PehrsonThe Yekepa Clinical Research and Training Unit of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research and Roslagstull Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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L. RomboThe Yekepa Clinical Research and Training Unit of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research and Roslagstull Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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E. BengtssonThe Yekepa Clinical Research and Training Unit of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research and Roslagstull Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Pages 239-246 | Received 06 Oct 1981, Published online: 15 Nov 2016

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