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Knowledge and malaria treatment practices using artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) in Malawi: survey of health professionals

BACKGROUND: Malaria still remains a life-threatening disease worldwide causing between 190 and 311 million cases of malaria in 2008. Due to increased resistance to sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), the Ministry of Health in Malawi, as in many sub-Saharan African countries, changed the malaria treatme...

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Autores principales:	Kalilani-Phiri, Linda V, Lungu, Douglas, Coghlan, Renia
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2011
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196928/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21939507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-279

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