Short report: Utility of a point-of-care malaria rapid diagnostic test for excluding malaria as the cause of fever among HIV-positive adults in rural Rakai, Uganda

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 145-147

  Mills, Lisa A ^a   Kagaayi, Joseph ^b   Nakigozi, Gertrude ^b   Galiwango, Ronald M ^b   Ouma, Joseph ^b   Shott, Joseph P ^c   Ssempijja, Victor ^b   Gray, Ronald H ^d   Wawer, Maria J ^d   Serwadda, David ^e   Quinn, Thomas C ^f   Reynolds, Steven J ^f  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b RAKAI HEALTH SCIENCES PROGRAM   (Uganda)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Uganda)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BED NET; BLOOD SMEAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; FEVER; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POINT OF CARE TESTING; RURAL HEALTH CARE; UGANDA; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FEVER; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UGANDA;

EID: 74049134283     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0408     Document Type: Article

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