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The relationship between reported fever and Plasmodium falciparum infection in African children.
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BACKGROUND: Fever has traditionally served as the entry point for presumptive treatment of malaria in African children. However, recent changes in the epidemiology of malaria across many places in Africa would suggest that the predictive accuracy of a fever history as a marker of disease has changed prompting calls for the change to diagnosis-based treatment strategies. METHODS: Using data from six national malaria indicator surveys undertaken between 2007 and 2009, the relationship between ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/1475-2875-9-99
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Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Malaria Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 99
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
- DOI:
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1475-2875
- ISSN:
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1475-2875
- Source identifiers:
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58673
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:58673
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Emelda A Okiro and Robert W Snow
- Copyright date:
- 2010
- Notes:
- © 2010 Emelda A Okiro and Robert W Snow; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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