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
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/07313dacf3b04873be5ba5537562cd6a
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