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  1. Medicine Department, Pediatric Endocrinology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Julia Elisabeth von Oettingen M.D.

  2. University of Liberia, 1000 Monrovia, 10, 1061, Liberia, West Coast of Africa

    Roseda E. Marshall M.D., M.P.H., M.A. (Parasitology)

  3. Division of Global Health, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, 100 Cambridge St., 15th Floor, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Jennifer Kasper M.D., M.P.H.

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  1. MassGeneral Hospital for Children Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Nupur Gupta

  2. MassGeneral Hospital for Children Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Brett D. Nelson

  3. Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    Jennifer Kasper

  4. Global Health Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Patricia L. Hibberd

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von Oettingen, J.E., Marshall, R.E., Kasper, J. (2014). Fundamentals of Pediatric Care in Resource-Limited Settings. In: Gupta, N., Nelson, B., Kasper, J., Hibberd, P. (eds) The MassGeneral Hospital for Children Handbook of Pediatric Global Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7918-5_5

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