Divining without seeds : the case for strengthening laboratory medicine in Africa /

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Infectious disease is the most common cause of illness in Africa, yet health practitioners often fail to identify causative microorganisms in most patients. Iruka Okeke argues that there is a pressing need to improve laboratory diagnostics.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Okeke, Iruka N., 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2011.
Series:Culture and politics of health care work.
Subjects:
Diagnosis, Laboratory > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Medical laboratories > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Clinical medicine > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Communicable Diseases > diagnosis
Laboratories > supply & distribution
Clinical Medicine > methods
Diagnostics biologiques > Afrique subsaharienne.
Médecine > Laboratoires > Afrique subsaharienne.
Médecine clinique > Afrique subsaharienne.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Clinical medicine
Diagnosis, Laboratory
Medical laboratories
Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Africa South of the Sahara
Afrique subsaharienne.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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