Table 1 Basic characteristic of the study population comprising of 1099 children under-5 years of age with fever (axillary temperature ≥ 37.5 °C)
| Â | No (%) |
|---|---|
Sex | |
 Male | 607 (55.23) |
Age | |
 ≤ 12 months | 306 (27.84) |
Recruitment site | |
 Referral hospital | 294 (26.75) |
 Health facilities | 805 (73.25) |
Clinical diagnosis (n = 1099)a | |
 Malaria based on malaria RDTb | 798 (72.68) |
 Septicaemia | 2 (0.18) |
 Gastro-enteritis | 268 (24.39) |
 Malnourished | 33 (3.00) |
 Bronchiolitis | 101 (9.20) |
 Pneumonia | 159 (14.47) |
 Other GII | 56 (5.10) |
 Other RTI | 155 (14.10) |
 Urinary tract infection | 15 (1.36) |
Laboratory findings | |
 Malaria based on microscopy (n = 1097)c | 589 (53.69) |
 Bacterial bloodstream infection (n = 1099) | 65 (5.91) |
 Parasitic gastro-intestinal infection (n = 757) | 215 (28.40) |
 Bacterial gastro-intestinal infection (n = 757) | 65 (8.59) |
 Viral gastro-intestinal infection (n = 757) | 29 (3.83) |
 Urinary tract infection (n = 739) | 11 (1.49) |
 Common bacterial pathogens of nasopharynx (n = 629) | 153 (24.32) |