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Solving the enigma of acute febrile illness

Solving the enigma of acute febrile illness

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Solving the enigma of acute febrile illness

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Solving the enigma of acute febrile illness

Publisher

London: Elsevier Ltd

Journal title

The Lancet infectious diseases, 2022-09, Vol.22 (9), p.1261-1262

Language

English

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London: Elsevier Ltd

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Contents

For many years in Africa and other tropical regions, fever has been presumptively treated as malaria.1 The development and widespread use of malaria rapid tests markedly improved the specificity of the diagnosis of fever caused by malarial parasites but led to unacceptable levels of presumptive use of antibiotics for patients with negative malaria...

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Solving the enigma of acute febrile illness

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2678430174

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2678430174

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ISSN

1473-3099

E-ISSN

1474-4457

DOI

10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00313-9

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