Malaria overdiagnosis and burden of malaria misdiagnosis in the suburbs of central Sudan: special emphasis on artemisinin-based combination therapy era

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-26

  A Elgayoum, Salwa M E ^a   El Feki, Abd El Karim Ahmed ^b   Mahgoub, Babiker Ahmed ^c   El Rayah, El Amin ^a   Giha, Hayder A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Sudan)

^c Ministry of Health   (Sudan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^e ARABIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

Cost; Diagnosis; Microscopy; Plasmodium falciparum; RDT

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISIN; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; LACTONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAPID IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUDAN; VALIDATION STUDY; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; DRUG COMBINATION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; PARASITOLOGY; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; BLOOD; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; LACTONES; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUDAN; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65649137682     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.01.029     Document Type: Article

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