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Comparison of Health Service Utilization for Febrile Children Before and After Introduction of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests and Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy in Rural Papua New Guinea
BACKGROUND: In Papua New Guinea (PNG), a malaria treatment policy using rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) plus artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) was widely introduced to rural communities in 2012. The objectives of the study were to evaluate the effect of this RDT/ACT introduction to a rural P...
Autores principales: | Tsukahara, Takahiro, Sugahara, Takuma, Furusawa, Takuro, Hombhanje, Francis Wanak |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5859013/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29594096 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00075 |
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