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The Benefits or Otherwise of Managing Malaria Cases with or without Laboratory Diagnosis: The Experience in a District Hospital in Ghana

BACKGROUND: This study was conducted at the Kintampo Municipal Hospital in Ghana to determine whether there was any benefit (or otherwise) in basing the management of cases of suspected malaria solely on laboratory confirmation (microscopy or by RDT) as compared with presumptive diagnosis. METHOD: C...

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Autores principales:	Osei-Kwakye, Kingsley, Asante, Kwaku Poku, Mahama, Emmanuel, Apanga, Stephen, Owusu, Ruth, Kwara, Evans, Adjei, George, Abokyi, Livesy, Yeetey, Enuameh, Dosoo, David Kwame, Punguyire, Damien, Owusu-Agyei, Seth
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2013
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591456/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23505457 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058107

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