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Point-of-Care Approaches for Meningitis Diagnosis in a Low-Resource Setting (Southwestern Uganda): Observational Cohort Study Protocol of the “PI-POC” Trial
BACKGROUND: A timely differential diagnostic is essential to identify the etiology of central nervous system (CNS) infections in children, in order to facilitate targeted treatment, manage patients, and improve clinical outcome. OBJECTIVE: The Pediatric Infection-Point-of-Care (PI-POC) trial is inve...
Autores principales: | Gaudenzi, Giulia, Kumbakumba, Elias, Rasti, Reza, Nanjebe, Deborah, Réu, Pedro, Nyehangane, Dan, Mårtensson, Andreas, Nassejje, Milly, Karlsson, Jens, Mzee, John, Nilsson, Peter, Businge, Stephen, Loh, Edmund, Boum II, Yap, Andersson-Svahn, Helene, Gantelius, Jesper, Mwanga-Amumpaire, Juliet, Alfvén, Tobias |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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JMIR Publications
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7690656/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33146628 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/21430 |
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