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  title info:
    title: Divining without seeds
    sub title: the case for strengthening laboratory medicine in Africa
  name:
    name part: Okeke, Iruka N.
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: Ithaca
    publisher: ILR Press
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 222 pages)
  abstract: 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.
  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.
  note: Iruka N. Okeke.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: fb-----
  subject:
    topic: Diagnosis, Laboratory
    geographic: Africa, Sub-Saharan
  subject:
    topic: Medical laboratories
    geographic: Africa, Sub-Saharan
  subject:
    topic: Clinical medicine
    geographic: Africa, Sub-Saharan
  subject:
    geographic: Africa, Sub-Saharan
  subject:
    topic: Communicable Diseases
    topic: diagnosis
  subject:
    topic: Laboratories
    topic: supply & distribution
  subject:
    topic: Clinical Medicine
    topic: methods
  subject:
    geographic: Africa South of the Sahara
  subject:
    topic: Diagnostics biologiques
    geographic: Afrique subsaharienne
  subject:
    topic: Médecine
    topic: Laboratoires
    geographic: Afrique subsaharienne
  subject:
    topic: Médecine clinique
    geographic: Afrique subsaharienne
  subject:
    geographic: Afrique subsaharienne
  subject:
    topic: MEDICAL
    topic: Public Health
  subject:
    topic: HEALTH & FITNESS
    topic: Diseases
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: MEDICAL
    topic: Clinical Medicine
  subject:
    topic: MEDICAL
    topic: Diseases
  subject:
    topic: MEDICAL
    topic: Evidence-Based Medicine
  subject:
    topic: MEDICAL
    topic: Internal Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Clinical medicine
  subject:
    topic: Diagnosis, Laboratory
  subject:
    topic: Medical laboratories
  subject:
    geographic: Sub-Saharan Africa
  classification: RB37 .O44 2011eb
  classification: 616.07/50967
  classification: 2011 E-406
  classification: WC 25
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Divining without seeds
    name:
      name part: Okeke, Iruka N., 1970-
    origin info:
      publisher: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2011
    identifier: (DLC) 2010037178
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Culture and politics of health care work
  identifier: 9780801460906
  identifier: 0801460905
  identifier: 9780801449413
  identifier: 22573/ctt4rxfn JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt7zbbk
  record info:
    record content source: E7B
    record creation date: 100830
    record change date: 20230103223226.6
    record identifier: in00004634463
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng