Withholding antimalarials in febrile children who have a negative result for a rapid diagnostic test

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 506-511

  D'Acremont, Valérie ^a,c   Malila, Aggrey ^d   Swai, Ndeniria ^c   Tillya, Robert ^d   Kahama Maro, Judith ^c   Lengeler, Christian ^a   Genton, Blaise ^a,b,d  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c City Medical Office of Health   (Switzerland)

^d IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHILD; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEVER; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANZANIA;

ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALARIA; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TANZANIA;

EID: 77955781563     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655688     Document Type: Article

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