Use and limitations of malaria rapid diagnostic testing by community health workers in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo

BACKGROUND: Accurate and practical malaria diagnostics, such as immunochromatographic rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), have the potential to avert unnecessary treatments and save lives. Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) represent a potentially valuable human resource for expanding this technol...

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Autores principales: Hawkes, Michael, Katsuva, Jean Paul, Masumbuko, Claude K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20028563
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-308

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20028563
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-308

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