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Antibiotic use among patients with febrile illness in a low malaria endemicity setting in Uganda

BACKGROUND: Uganda embraced the World Health Organization guidelines that recommend a universal 'test and treat' strategy for malaria, mainly by use of rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and microscopy. However, little is known how increased parasitological diagnosis for malaria influences antibi...

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Autores principales:	Batwala, Vincent, Magnussen, Pascal, Nuwaha, Fred
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2011
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3258227/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22183039 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-377

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