Health centre versus home presumptive diagnosis of malaria in southern Ghana: Implications for home-based care policy

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 285-288

  Dunyo, Samuel K ^a   Afari, Edwin A ^a   Koram, Kwadwo A ^a   Ahorlu, Collins K ^a   Abubakar, Ismaela ^a   Nkrumah, Francis K ^a  

^a University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Children; Ghana; Health centre; Home; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Presumptive diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLA; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GHANA; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CENTER; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SYMPTOM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034122129     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(00)90324-9     Document Type: Article

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