TY - JOUR AU - Stoler, Justin AU - Awandare, Gordon A. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/11/17 TI - Febrile illness diagnostics and the malaria-industrial complex: a socio-environmental perspective JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 683 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Global prioritization of single-disease eradication programs over improvements to basic diagnostic capacity in the Global South have left the world unprepared for epidemics of chikungunya, Ebola, Zika, and whatever lies on the horizon. The medical establishment is slowly realizing that in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), particularly urban areas, up to a third of patients suffering from acute fever do not receive a correct diagnosis of their infection. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-2025-x DO - 10.1186/s12879-016-2025-x ID - Stoler2016 ER -