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The malaria burden of Amerindian groups of three Venezuelan states: A descriptive study based on programmatic data

2021-03-10

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold>: Fifty-three percent of all cases of malaria in the Americas in 2019 came from Venezuela, where the epidemic is heavily focused south of the Orinoco river, and where most of the country’s Amerindian groups live. Despite the disease is known to represent a significant public health problem among these populations, little epidemiological data exists on the subject....

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-288810/v1

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