Abandoning presumptive antimalarial treatment for febrile children aged less than five years--a case of running before we can walk?
<h4>Background to the debate</h4>Current guidelines recommend that all fever episodes in African children be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs. But declining malarial transmission in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, declining proportions of fevers due to malaria, and the availabi...
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| Main Authors: | Mike English, Hugh Reyburn, Catherine Goodman, Robert W Snow |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS Medicine |
| Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000015&type=printable |
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