Achieving universal testing for malaria

Rapid diagnostic tests have the potential to reduce the overtreatment of malaria by 95%, but time and extensive logistical, behavioural, and technical interventions may be required to achieve this, argue Eleanor Ochodo and colleagues

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Autores principales: Ochodo, Eleanor, Garner, Paul, Sinclair, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26846146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i107
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spelling pubmed-47727792016-03-10 Achieving universal testing for malaria Ochodo, Eleanor Garner, Paul Sinclair, David BMJ Analysis Rapid diagnostic tests have the potential to reduce the overtreatment of malaria by 95%, but time and extensive logistical, behavioural, and technical interventions may be required to achieve this, argue Eleanor Ochodo and colleagues BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2016-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4772779/ /pubmed/26846146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i107 Text en © Ochodo et al 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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