Malaria diagnosis and treatment under the strategy of the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI): Relevance of laboratory support from the rapid immunochromatographic tests of ICT malaria P.f/P.v and OptiMal

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 437-444

  Tarimo, D S ^a   Minjas, J N ^a   Bygbjerg, I C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; MEFLOQUINE; QUININE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOAL INFECTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PALLOR; PARASITEMIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034903254     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648590120068971     Document Type: Article

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