Open AccessPredictors of malaria in febrile children in Sokoto, Nigeria
Author(s) -
Sanjay Singh,
Aboi Jk Madaki,
Nma Jiya,
Rupashree Singh,
Tom D. Thacher
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
nigerian medical journal/nigerian medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-774X
pISSN - 0300-1652
DOI - 10.4103/0300-1652.144701
Subject(s) - malaria , medicine , myalgia , vomiting , odds ratio , diagnosis of malaria , univariate analysis , prospective cohort study , multivariate analysis , pediatrics , plasmodium falciparum , immunology
Presumptive diagnosis of malaria is widespread, even where microscopy is available. As fever is very nonspecific, this often leads to over diagnosis, drug wastage and loss of opportunity to consider alternative causes of fever, hence the need to improve on the clinical diagnosis of malaria.