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How can malaria rapid diagnostic tests achieve their potential? A qualitative study of a trial at health facilities in Ghana

BACKGROUND: Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria are at the early stages of introduction across malaria endemic countries. This is central to efforts to decrease malaria overdiagnosis and the consequent overuse of valuable anti-malarials and underdiagnosis of alternative causes of fever. Eviden...

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Autores principales: Chandler, Clare IR, Whitty, Christopher JM, Ansah, Evelyn K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2859355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20398262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-95