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Finding parasites and finding challenges: improved diagnostic access and trends in reported malaria and anti-malarial drug use in Livingstone district, Zambia
BACKGROUND: Understanding the impact of malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) use on management of acute febrile disease at a community level, and on the consumption of anti-malarial medicines, is critical to the planning and success of scale-up to universal parasite-based diagnosis by health systems...
Autores principales: | Masaninga, Freddie, Sekeseke-Chinyama, Masela, Malambo, Thindo, Moonga, Hawela, Babaniyi, Olusegun, Counihan, Helen, Bell, David |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496597/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23043557 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-341 |
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