Time to move from presumptive malaria treatment to laboratory-confirmed diagnosis and treatment in African children with fever.

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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Main Authors:	Valérie D'Acremont, Christian Lengeler, Hassan Mshinda, Deo Mtasiwa, Marcel Tanner, Blaise Genton
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:	PLoS Medicine
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2613421?pdf=render

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