BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. Fully formatted PDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon. Perinatal mortality in rural Burkina Faso: a prospective community-based cohort study BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2010, 10:45 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-10-45 Abdoulaye HAMA Diallo (
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[email protected]) ISSN 1471-2393 Article type Research article Submission date 15 March 2010 Acceptance date 17 August 2010 Publication date 17 August 2010 Article URL http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/10/45 Like all articles in BMC journals, this peer-reviewed article was published immediately upon acceptance. It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). Articles in BMC journals are listed in PubMed and archived at PubMed Central. For information about publishing your research in BMC journals or any BioMed Central journal, go to http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/ © 2010 Diallo et al. , licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Perinatal mortality in rural Burkina Faso: a prospective community-based cohort study Abdoulaye Hama Diallo 1, 2 § , Nicolas Meda 1, Emmanuel Zabsonré 1, Halvor Sommerfelt 2, 3 , Simon Cousens 4 and Thorkild Tylleskär 2 for the PROMISE-EBF study group* 1Centre MURAZ Research Institute, Ministry of Health/Burkina Faso, PO Box 390, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.