Diarrhoeal disease trends in the GBD 2015 study: optimism tempered by scepticism.

What it found

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  Estimates of global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of diarrhoeal diseases: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.2017

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