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Improving case definitions for severe malaria
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Improving case definitions for severe malaria
PLoS Med.
2007 Aug.
Abstract
The authors discuss a study by Philip Bejon et al. that adopted a new approach to balancing the sensitivity and specificity of criteria for defining severe malaria.
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