Laboratory medicine in Africa: a barrier to effective health care.

By C. Petti, C. Polage, T. Quinn, A. Ronald, M. Sande. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2006

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Subfields: Health, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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• Evaluation of In-Hospital Management for Febrile Illness in Northern Tanzania before and after 2010 World Health Organization Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria (2014, background): “In sub-Saharan Africa, clinical laboratories often lack the facilities to provide quality malaria smears or blood cultures [10,11,12], contributing to malaria overdiagnosis [9].”
• Point-of-care diagnostics for global health. (2008, background): “In Malawi, one study, evaluating a strategy to ensure the delivery of suspected TB specimens to a central reference laboratory, found that only 40% of the specimens arrived at the central facility (82, 85).”