IJE Advance Access originally published online on December 14, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(1):243-244; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl260
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Improving malaria mortality estimates for rural Africa by adding further studies: Authors reply to Ndugwa et al.
1 Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States.
2 Program for Appropriate Technology for Health (PATH), Ferney-Voltaire, France.
* Corresponding author. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop F22, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724. E-mail: axr9@cdc.gov
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We thank Ndugwa et al. for their comments1 on our recent estimates of malaria mortality among African children in the year 2000.2 Ndugwa et al. recognize the reasonableness of our inclusion criteria, but claim that many relevant studies were omitted.