Improving Case Definitions for Severe Malaria
Open Access
- 21 August 2007
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 4 (8) , e267
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040267
Abstract
The authors discuss a study by Philip Bejon et al. that adopted a new approach to balancing the sensitivity and specificity of criteria for defining severe malaria.Keywords
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