Diagnosis of malaria infection with or without disease

Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bisoffi, Zeno ^a   Gobbi, Federico ^a   Buonfrate, Dora ^a   Van den Ende, Jef ^b  

^a SACRO CUORE DON CALABRIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; QUININE;

ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMPORT DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84875967751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20353006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4084/MJHID.2012.036     Document Type: Review

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