Improved Diagnostic Testing and Malaria Treatment Practices in Zambia
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Improved diagnostic testing and malaria treatment practices in Zambia.
CONTEXT Improving the accuracy of malaria diagnosis with rapid antigen-detection diagnostic tests (RDTs) has been proposed as an approach for reducing overtreatment of malaria in the current era of widespread implementation of artemisinin-based combination therapy in sub-Saharan Africa. OBJECTIVE To assess the association between use of microscopy and RDT and the prescription of antimalarials...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.297.20.2227