Ensuring quality and access for malaria diagnosis: How can it be achieved?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 682-695

  Bell, David ^a   Wongsrichanalai, Chansuda ^b,c   Barnwell, John W ^d  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b National Institute of Public Health   (Cambodia)

^c US Naval Medical Research Unit No 2 Jakarta   (Indonesia)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BUDGET; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFICACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FIELD STUDY; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SERODIAGNOSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; QUALITY CONTROL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 33747333409     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1474     Document Type: Review

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