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Obstacles to prompt and effective malaria treatment lead to low community-coverage in two rural districts of Tanzania
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* Corresponding author: Manuel W Hetzel manuel.hetzel@unibas.ch
BMC Public Health 2008, 8:317 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-317
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