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Exploring health providers’ and community perceptions and experiences with malaria tests in South-East Nigeria: a critical step towards appropriate treatment

BACKGROUND: The adoption of ACT as the first line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in Nigeria has concentrated attention on the role of testing in appropriate malaria treatment. There are calls at both national and global level for malaria treatment to be based on test result, but it is still unc...

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Autores principales:	Ezeoke, Ogochukwu P, Ezumah, Nkoli N, Chandler, Clare CI, Mangham-Jefferies, Lindsay J, Onwujekwe, Obinna E, Wiseman, Virginia, Uzochukwu, Benjamin S
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2012
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3507662/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23130706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-368

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