Study to Investigate the Causes of Fever in Children Living in Urban Dar es Salaam and Rural Ifakara

Swiss Tropical and Public Health (TPH) Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fever; Infectious Diseases; Children

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01812785

SNSF (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Feverstudy

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal is to improve the evidence-based management of fever cases seen in outpatient clinics in malaria endemic countries, through a better understanding of the value of accurate malaria diagnosis, and through an improved understanding of the other causes of fever in children. The objective is to describe systematically (as much as possible) the etiologies of fever in children in an urban and in a rural environment of sub-Saharan Africa.

Enrollment: 1,010 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 months to 10 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• axillary temperature of 38°C or more
• first consultation for the present problem
• history of fever lasting for one week or less
• main complaint was not an injury or trauma
• no report of an antimalarial or antibiotic medicine taken during the previous week

Exclusion criteria

• severe malnutrition
• categorized as P1 (requiring immediate live saving procedures)