Watching the availability and use of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT)

Abstract At the turn of this new century and after much debate, the malaria community reckoned with failing first line therapies and moved to a global recommendation for deployment of an artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) to treat infections due to Plasmodium falciparum. No one said it was...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Richard W. Steketee, Thomas P. Eisele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:Malaria Journal
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-017-1821-0