Abandoning presumptive antimalarial treatment for febrile children aged less than five years--a case of running before we can walk?
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: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2009
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