Severe anaemia and paediatric mortality after hospital discharge in Africa

Moses M Ngari¹, James A Berkley²

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¹ The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya; The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition Network, Nairobi, Kenya.
² The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya; The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition Network, Nairobi, Kenya; The Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LG, UK. Electronic address: jberkley@kemri-wellcome.org.

PMID: 35605630
PMCID: PMC7613614
DOI: 10.1016/S2352-4642(22)00103-1

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Severe anaemia and paediatric mortality after hospital discharge in Africa

Moses M Ngari et al. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2022 Jul.

. 2022 Jul;6(7):447-449.

doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(22)00103-1. Epub 2022 May 21.

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Moses M Ngari¹, James A Berkley²

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¹ The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya; The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition Network, Nairobi, Kenya.
² The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya; The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition Network, Nairobi, Kenya; The Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LG, UK. Electronic address: jberkley@kemri-wellcome.org.

PMID: 35605630
PMCID: PMC7613614
DOI: 10.1016/S2352-4642(22)00103-1

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