Divining without Seeds : The Case for Strengthening Laboratory Medicine in Africa / / Iruka N. Okeke.
Infectious disease is the most common cause of illness and death in Africa, yet health practitioners routinely fail to identify causative microorganisms in most patients. As a result, patients often do not receive the right medicine in time to cure them promptly even when such medicine is available,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : ILR Press,, 2011. ©2011. |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture and politics of health care work.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of 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.