Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 348, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bisoffi, Zeno ^a   Gobbi, Federico ^a   Van Den Ende, Jef ^b  

^a Ospedale Sacro Cuore   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARTEMISININ; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

AFGHANISTAN; AFRICA; ASIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG MISUSE; EDITORIAL; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MICROSCOPY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); FEMALE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NOTE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA;

ANTIMALARIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE;

EID: 84902602770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g3846     Document Type: Editorial

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