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Original Articles

Characteristics and clinical management of patients admitted to cholera wards in a regional referral hospital during the 2012 epidemic in Sierra Leone

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Article: 25266 | Received 24 Jun 2014, Accepted 21 Oct 2014, Published online: 06 Jan 2015

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