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Treatment of malaria restricted to laboratory-confirmed cases: a prospective cohort study in Ugandan children
BACKGROUND: Presumptive treatment of malaria in febrile children is widely advocated in Africa. This may occur in the absence of diagnostic testing or even when diagnostic testing is performed but fails to detect malaria parasites. Such over-treatment of malaria has been tolerated in the era of inex...
Autores principales: | Njama-Meya, Denise, Clark, Tamara D, Nzarubara, Bridget, Staedke, Sarah, Kamya, Moses R, Dorsey, Grant |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2007
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1797179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17239256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-6-7 |
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