Time To Move from Presumptive Malaria Treatment to Laboratory-Confirmed Diagnosis and Treatment in African Children with Fever

Background to the debate: Current guidelines recommend that all fever episodes in African children be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs. But declining malarial transmission in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, declining proportions of fevers due to malaria, and the availability of rapid diagn...

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Autores principales: D'Acremont, Valérie, Lengeler, Christian, Mshinda, Hassan, Mtasiwa, Deo, Tanner, Marcel, Genton, Blaise
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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The PLoS Medicine Debate
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2613421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19127974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050252

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2613421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19127974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050252

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