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Effect of Test-Based versus Presumptive Treatment of Malaria in Under-Five Children in Rural Ghana – A Cluster-Randomised Trial

BACKGROUND: Malaria-endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa are shifting from the presumptive approach that is based on clinical judgement (CJ) to the test-based approach that is based on confirmation through test with rapid diagnostic tests (RDT). It has been suggested that the loss of the prophyla...

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Autores principales:	Baiden, Frank, Bruce, Jane, Webster, Jayne, Tivura, Mathilda, Delmini, Rupert, Amengo-Etego, Seeba, Owusu-Agyei, Seth, Chandramohan, Daniel
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2016
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4824463/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27055275 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152960

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