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Changes in health workers' malaria diagnosis and treatment practices in Kenya

BACKGROUND: Change of Kenyan treatment policy for uncomplicated malaria from sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine to artemether-lumefantrine (AL) was accompanied by revised recommendations promoting presumptive malaria diagnosis in young children and, wherever possible, parasitological diagnosis and adherence...

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Autores principales:	Juma, Elizabeth, Zurovac, Dejan
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2011
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3022768/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21214892 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-1

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