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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...
Autores principales: | D'Acremont, Valérie, Lengeler, Christian, Mshinda, Hassan, Mtasiwa, Deo, Tanner, Marcel, Genton, Blaise |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2009
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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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