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Can traditional birth attendants be trained to accurately identify septic infants, initiate antibiotics, and refer in a rural African setting?

Christopher John Gill, William B MacLeod, Grace Phiri-Mazala, Nicholas G Guerina, Mark Mirochnick, Anna B Knapp and Davidson H Hamer
Global Health: Science and Practice August 2014, 2(3):318-327; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-14-00045
Christopher John Gill
aBoston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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William B MacLeod
aBoston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Grace Phiri-Mazala
bZambia Anglican Council, Lusaka, Zambia
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Nicholas G Guerina
cWomen and Neonates Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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dBoston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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vol. 2 no. 3 318-327
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-14-00045
PubMed 
25276591

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Global Health: Science and Practice
Online ISSN 
2169-575X
History 
  • Received: March 11, 2014
  • Accepted: July 10, 2014
  • Published online August 19, 2014.

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© Gill et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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  1. Christopher John Gilla⇑,
  2. William B MacLeoda,
  3. Grace Phiri-Mazalab,
  4. Nicholas G Guerinac,
  5. Mark Mirochnickd,
  6. Anna B Knappa,
  7. Davidson H Hamera
  1. aBoston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
  2. bZambia Anglican Council, Lusaka, Zambia
  3. cWomen and Neonates Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
  4. dBoston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
  1. Correspondence to Christopher John Gill (cgill{at}bu.edu).
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Global Health: Science and Practice Aug 2014, 2 (3) 318-327; DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-14-00045
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