Febrile illness diagnostics and the malaria-industrial complex: A socio-environmental perspective

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Stoler, Justin ^a,b   Awandare, Gordon A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Africa; Communicable disease; Diagnostics; Fever; Malaria

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; CHIKUNGUNYA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FEVER; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; ZIKA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; COMPLICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENVIRONMENT; GHANA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MALARIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ENVIRONMENT; FEVER; GHANA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALARIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84996619283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-016-2025-x     Document Type: Article

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