Early Childhood Mortality from Community-acquired Infections
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Early childhood mortality from community-acquired infections.
In this study, the authors identified maternal and child characteristics that were independent predictors of death from infectious diseases acquired in the community and determined if these factors could be used to identify groups of children with excess risk of mortality from infection. A historical cohort study was conducted of children less than 5 years of age between 1985 and 1994 (the stud...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a010041