Zinc Supplementation Reduces Recurrent Acute Lower Respiratory Infection (ALRI)
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Acute lower respiratory tract infection.
Copyright © 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society. A cute lower respiratory tract infections are a persistent and pervasive public health problem. They cause a greater burden of disease worldwide than human immunodeficiency virus infection, malaria, cancer, or heart attacks.1 In the United States, they cause more disease and death than any other infection, and there has been little change in morta...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Armed Forces Medical College, Bangladesh
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1992-5743
DOI: 10.3329/jafmc.v9i1.18736