Management of uncomplicated malaria in febrile under five-year-old children by community health workers in Madagascar: Reliability of malaria rapid diagnostic tests

Malaria Journal

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ratsimbasoa, Arsène ^a   Ravony, Harintsoa ^a   Vonimpaisomihanta, Jeanne Aimée ^a   Raherinjafy, Rogelin ^b   Jahevitra, Martial ^c   Rapelanoro, Rabenja ^c   Rakotomanga, Jean De Dieu Marie ^c   Malvy, Denis ^d   Millet, Pascal ^d   Ménard, Didier ^e  

^a Planning Familial et de la Protection Sociale   (Madagascar)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MADAGASCAR   (Madagascar)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR DU CAMBODGE   (Cambodia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MADAGASCAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; MADAGASCAR; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84858744804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-11-85     Document Type: Article

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