Overdiagnosis of malaria in patients with severe febrile illness in Tanzania: a prospective study

By Hugh Reyburn, R. Mbatia, Christopher J. Drakeley, I. Carneiro, Emmanuel Mwakasungula, Ombeni Mwerinde, Kapalala Saganda, J. Shao, A. Kitua, R. Olomi and 2 more. British medical journal, 2004

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Subfields: Parasitology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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• Laboratory medicine in Africa: a barrier to effective health care. (2006, background): “Among 4670 patients admitted to Tanzanian hospitals who received the clinical diagnosis of severe malaria by World Health Organization (WHO) criteria, !50% had a blood smear result confirming the presence of Plasmodium falciparum [11].”
• 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 patients with non-malarial causes of severe febrile illness, failure to treat these alternative causes is associated with poor patient outcomes [3].”