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Divining without seeds : the case for strengthening laboratory medicine in Africa / Iruka N. Okeke.
LIBRA RB37 .O44 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Okeke, Iruka N., 1970-
- Series:
- Culture and politics of health care work
- The culture and politics of health care work
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diagnosis, Laboratory--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Diagnosis, Laboratory.
- Medical laboratories--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Medical laboratories.
- Clinical medicine--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Clinical medicine.
- Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 222 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : ILR Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- The power of sight
- Fever : is it malaria?
- Fever : beyond malaria
- Drug resistance
- Viral hemorrhagic fevers
- Detecting covert infection ahead of the final diagnosis
- Diagnostic certainty and disease control
- Origins and outlook of diagnostic insufficiency in Africa
- Conclusion : the feasibility of laboratory diagnosis in African settings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801449413
- OCLC:
- 662154534
- Publisher Number:
- 99951335841
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