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Strict adherence to malaria rapid test results might lead to a neglect of other dangerous diseases: a cost benefit analysis from Burkina Faso
BACKGROUND: Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have generally been found reliable and cost-effective. In Burkina Faso, the adherence of prescribers to the negative test result was found to be poor. Moreover, the test accuracy for malaria-attributable fever (MAF) is not the same as for malaria inf...
Autores principales: | Bisoffi, Zeno, Sirima, Sodiomon B, Meheus, Filip, Lodesani, Claudia, Gobbi, Federico, Angheben, Andrea, Tinto, Halidou, Neya, Bouma, Van den Ende, Klara, Romeo, Annalisa, Van den Ende, Jef |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3199908/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21816087 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-226 |
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