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Vancouver

Uwishema O, Onyeaka H, Alshareif BAA, Omer MEA, Sablay ALR, Tariq R, et al. Current Context of Pneumonia Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa. J CONTEMP STUD EPIDEMIOL PUBLIC HEALTH. 2021;2(2):ep21007. https://doi.org/10.30935/jconseph/11281

APA

Uwishema, O., Onyeaka, H., Alshareif, B. A. A., Omer, M. E. A., Sablay, A. L. R., Tariq, R., Mohamed, R. I. H., Zahabioun, A., Yousif, M. Y. E., Chalhoub, E., & Tovani-Palone, M. R. (2021). Current Context of Pneumonia Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa. Journal of Contemporary Studies in Epidemiology and Public Health, 2(2), ep21007. https://doi.org/10.30935/jconseph/11281

AMA

Uwishema O, Onyeaka H, Alshareif BAA, et al. Current Context of Pneumonia Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa. J CONTEMP STUD EPIDEMIOL PUBLIC HEALTH. 2021;2(2), ep21007. https://doi.org/10.30935/jconseph/11281

Chicago

Uwishema, Olivier, Helen Onyeaka, Baha Aldeen Abdalaziz Alshareif, Mohammed Eltahier Abdalla Omer, Alfredo Lorenzo Recio Sablay, Rabeet Tariq, Rayan Ibrahim Hamid Mohamed, Amirsaman Zahabioun, Mohamed Yousif Elamin Yousif, Elie Chalhoub, and Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone. "Current Context of Pneumonia Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa". Journal of Contemporary Studies in Epidemiology and Public Health 2021 2 no. 2 (2021): ep21007. https://doi.org/10.30935/jconseph/11281

Harvard

Uwishema, O., Onyeaka, H., Alshareif, B. A. A., Omer, M. E. A., Sablay, A. L. R., Tariq, R., . . . Tovani-Palone, M. R. (2021). Current Context of Pneumonia Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa. Journal of Contemporary Studies in Epidemiology and Public Health, 2(2), ep21007. https://doi.org/10.30935/jconseph/11281

MLA

Uwishema, Olivier et al. "Current Context of Pneumonia Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa". Journal of Contemporary Studies in Epidemiology and Public Health, vol. 2, no. 2, 2021, ep21007. https://doi.org/10.30935/jconseph/11281