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SUBMITTER: Bruxvoort KJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5637593 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bruxvoort Katia J KJ Leurent Baptiste B Chandler Clare I R CIR Ansah Evelyn K EK Baiden Frank F Björkman Anders A Burchett Helen E D HED Clarke Siân E SE Cundill Bonnie B DiLiberto Debora D DD Elfving Kristina K Goodman Catherine C Hansen Kristian S KS Kachur S Patrick SP Lal Sham S Lalloo David G DG Leslie Toby T Magnussen Pascal P Mangham-Jefferies Lindsay L Mårtensson Andreas A Mayan Ismail I Mbonye Anthony K AK Msellem Mwinyi I MI Onwujekwe Obinna E OE Owusu-Agyei Seth S Rowland Mark W MW Shakely Delér D Staedke Sarah G SG Vestergaard Lasse S LS Webster Jayne J Whitty Christopher J M CJM Wiseman Virginia L VL Yeung Shunmay S Schellenberg David D Hopkins Heidi H
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20170818 4
Since 2010, the World Health Organization has been recommending that all suspected cases of malaria be confirmed with parasite-based diagnosis before treatment. These guidelines represent a paradigm shift away from presumptive antimalarial treatment of fever. Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs) are central to implementing this policy, intended to target artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACT) to patients with confirmed malaria and to improve management of patients with nonmalarial fever ...[more]