Abstract Background Acute febrile illnesses (AFIs) represent a major disease burden
globally; however, the paucity of reliable, rapid point-of-care testing makes their diagnosis …

Advancing Access to Diagnostic Tools Essential for Universal Health Coverage and
Antimicrobial Resistance Prevention: An Overvie Page 1 Advancing Access to Diagnostic …

Fever is one of the leading causes for pediatric medical consultation and the most common
symptom at clinical presentation in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Most febrile …

Acute febrile illness (AFI) is one of the most common reasons for seeking medical care in
low-income and middle-income countries. Bacterial infections account for a relatively small …

Background: Acute respiratory infection (ARI) accounts for over two-thirds of total antibiotic
prescriptions although most are caused by viruses that do not benefit from antibiotics. Most …

Background The social determinants of health are a decisive yet persistently understudied
area for tackling global health challenges like antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Precarity is …

Misdiagnosis of enteric fever is a major global health problem, resulting in patient
mismanagement, antimicrobial misuse and inaccurate disease burden estimates. Applying a …

Background Low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) are increasingly adopting low-cost
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rapid antigen tests to meet the high demand for …

Early bacterial infection (BI) identification in resource-limiting Emergency Departments (ED)
is challenging, especially in low-and middle-income counties (LMIC). Misdiagnosis …

In low-and middle-income countries, in resource-limited settings, the implementation of
diagnostic tools discriminating bacterial from nonbacterial fever is a matter of primary …