Acute Uncomplicated Febrile Illness in Children Aged 2-59 months in Zanzibar - Aetiologies, Antibiotic Treatment and Outcome

Lal, S (2015). Acute Uncomplicated Febrile Illness in Children Aged 2-59 months in Zanzibar - Aetiologies, Antibiotic Treatment and Outcome. [Dataset]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. 10.17037/DATA.26.

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This dataset contains information on 677 children with acute uncomplicated febrile illness collected as part of a prospective health facility based study over 14 days between April-July 2011 in North A District, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Variables include basic demographics, socio-economic information and results from clinical examinations, laboratory tests and PCR analyses. A healthy community control group (n=167) was recruited for comparison during the same study time period.

Keywords

Fever aetiology; infectious aetiology; Fever diagnosis; Molecular epidemiology; Paediatrics; Child health; Preschool children; Integrated Management of childhood illness guidelines (IMCI); Polymerase Chain Reaction; Tropical medicine; Outpatients; Low-income population; C-reactive Protein.

Item Type	Dataset
Resource Type	Resource Type Resource Description Dataset UNSPECIFIED
Capture method	Questionnaire: Fixed form
Collection Period	From To April 2011 July 2011
Date	December 2015
Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)	North Latitude East Longitude South Latitude West Longitude -6.22506 39.2626 -6.23312 39.2528
Language(s) of written materials	English
Creator(s)	Lal, S
Associated roles	Elfving, K (Principal Investigator); Shakely, D (Co-Investigator); Andersson, M (Co-Investigator); Baltzell, K (Co-Investigator); Ali, AS (Principal Investigator); Bachelard, M (Co-Investigator); Falk, KI (Co-Investigator); Ljung, A (Co-Investigator); Msellem, MI (Principal Investigator); Omar, RS (Co-Investigator); Parola, P (Co-Investigator); Xu, W (Co-Investigator); Petzold, M (Co-Investigator); Trollfors, B (Co-Investigator); Björkman, A (Principal Investigator); Lindh, M (Principal Investigator) and Mårtensson, A (Principal Investigator)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Disease Control
Research Centre	ACT Consortium
Participating Institutions	University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Kungälv Hospital, Kungälv, Sweden; University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America.; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Programme, Ministry of Health, Zanzibar, Tanzania; Aix Marseille University, UM63, WHO collaborative centre for rickettsioses and other arthropod borne bacterial diseases, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France; Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Funders	Project Funder Grant Number Funder URI ACT Consortium Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Date Deposited	11 Jan 2016 11:40
Last Modified	28 Sep 2018 21:17
Publisher	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine