Rapid diagnostic tests for a coordinated approach to fever syndromes in low-resource settings

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 610-611

  Yansouni, Cedric P ^a   Bottieau, Emmanuel ^a   Chappuis, François ^b   Phoba, Marie France ^c   Lunguya, Octavie ^c   Ifeka, Billy Bongoso ^d   Jacobs, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale   (Congo)

^d Zone de Santé Rurale de Bwamanda ^*  (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ALGORITHM; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BORRELIA INFECTION; CONGO; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEVER; HUMAN; LETTER; MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST; SALMONELLA; TICK BORNE DISEASE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 84864483007     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis466     Document Type: Letter

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