Time to move from presumptive malaria treatment to laboratory-confirmed diagnosis and treatment in African children with fever.
BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE: Current guidelines recommend that all fever episodes in African children be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs. But declining malarial transmission in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, declining proportions of fevers due to malaria, and the availability of rapid diagn...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS Medicine |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2613421?pdf=render |