Can Rapid Diagnostic Testing for Malaria Increase Adherence to Artemether-Lumefantrine?: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda.

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  2016

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  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

• Publication date

  2016-04-06

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0420PMID 26928828PMCID PMC4824230
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