Clinical features cannot predict a diagnosis of malaria or differentiate the infecting species in children living in an area of low transmission
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 92 (1) , 45-49
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0035-9203(98)90950-6
Abstract
The differentiation of malaria from other causes of fever in the absence of microscopy is notoriously difficult. Clinical predictors of malaria haveKeywords
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