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Do clinicians in areas of declining malaria transmission adhere to malaria diagnosis guidelines? A cross-sectional study from Kampala, Uganda

BACKGROUND: Uganda's clinical management guidelines recommend a malaria laboratory test in all patients presenting with fever (history of fever or an axillary temperature ≥ 37.5 °C), and only those with a positive test receive anti-malarial treatment. However, the current practice in areas with...

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Autores principales: Atukunda, Angella, Deogratius, Mwaka Amos, Arinaitwe, Emmanuel, Orishaba, Philip, Kamya, Moses R., Nankabirwa, Joaniter I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8051068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33858434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03729-8