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Article: Better Clinical Definitions for Low Transmission Needed.
- Article from:
- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- September 20, 1999
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(CW HENDERSON PUBLISHER www.newsfile.com) -- Health care workers should be trained to detect pallor and splenomegaly, symptoms that improve the specificity for malaria, researchers indicated.
L. Muhe and colleagues of Ethiopia's Addis Ababa University performed a study to assess the proportion of children with febrile disease who suffer from malaria and to identify clinical signs and symptoms that predict malaria during low and high transmission seasons ("Clinical Algorithm for Malaria during Low and High Transmission Seasons," Arch Dis Child, September 1999;81(3):216-220).
The study comprised 2,490 children between the ages of two and 59 months ...