Admission Point-of-Care Testing for the Clinical Care of Children with Cerebral Malaria

Admission Point-of-Care Testing for the Clinical Care of Children with Cerebral Malaria

Point-of-care testing (PoCT), an alternative to laboratory-based testing, may be useful in the clinical care of critically ill children in resource-limited settings. We evaluated the clinical utility of PoCT in the care of 193 Malawian children treated for World Health Organization-defined cerebral...

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Main Authors: David Wichman, Geoffrey Guenther, Nthambose M. Simango, Mengxin Yu, Dylan Small, Olivia D. Findorff, Nathaniel O. Amoah, Rohini Dasan, Karl B. Seydel, Douglas G. Postels, Nicole F. O’Brien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-09-01
Series:Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Subjects:
malaria
pediatrics
point-of-care testing
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/9/9/210

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