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The Impact of Introducing Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests on Fever Case Management: A Synthesis of Ten Studies from the ACT Consortium

Since 2010, the World Health Organization has been recommending that all suspected cases of malaria be confirmed with parasite-based diagnosis before treatment. These guidelines represent a paradigm shift away from presumptive antimalarial treatment of fever. Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs) a...

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Autores principales: Bruxvoort, Katia J., Leurent, Baptiste, Chandler, Clare I. R., Ansah, Evelyn K., Baiden, Frank, Björkman, Anders, Burchett, Helen E. D., Clarke, Siân E., Cundill, Bonnie, DiLiberto, Debora D., Elfving, Kristina, Goodman, Catherine, Hansen, Kristian S., Kachur, S. Patrick, Lal, Sham, Lalloo, David G., Leslie, Toby, Magnussen, Pascal, Mangham-Jefferies, Lindsay, Mårtensson, Andreas, Mayan, Ismail, Mbonye, Anthony K., Msellem, Mwinyi I., Onwujekwe, Obinna E., Owusu-Agyei, Seth, Rowland, Mark W., Shakely, Delér, Staedke, Sarah G., Vestergaard, Lasse S., Webster, Jayne, Whitty, Christopher J. M., Wiseman, Virginia L., Yeung, Shunmay, Schellenberg, David, Hopkins, Heidi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5637593/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28820705
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.16-0955