Defining Disease Heterogeneity to Guide the Empirical Treatment of Febrile Illness in Resource Poor Settings

• Main Authors: Lisa J. White, Paul N. Newton, Richard J. Maude, Wirichada Pan-ngum, Jessica R. Fried, Mayfong Mayxay, Rapeephan R. Maude, Nicholas P.J. Day
• Other Authors: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/13395
• Institution: Mahidol University

Background: Malaria incidence is in decline in many parts of SE Asia leading to a decreasing proportion of febrile illness that is attributable to malaria. However in the absence of rapid, affordable and accurate diagnostic tests, the non-malaria causes of these illnesses cannot be reliably identifi...