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. 2015 Jul;93(1):178-80.
doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0646. Epub 2015 Apr 27.

Community prevalence of fever and relationship with malaria among infants and children in low-resource areas

Namrata Prasad  1 , Katrina J Sharples  1 , David R Murdoch  1 , John A Crump  2
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Community prevalence of fever and relationship with malaria among infants and children in low-resource areas

Namrata Prasad et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2015 Jul.

Abstract

We used Demographic and Health Survey data to describe the 2-week period prevalence of fever, cough, and diarrhea among children aged < 5 years in low-resources areas. We then explored the relationship between prevalence of isolated fever and national malaria risk. Fever and isolated fever occurred in 26.7% and 7.0% of children, respectively, and was not fully explained by malaria.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Two-week period prevalence of diarrhea, cough, and fever, and combinations of these in children aged < 5 years surveyed in standard Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), 1986–2012, N = 1,200,986.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Population aged 0–4 years at risk of Plasmodium falciparum per 100,000 in 2010 vs. isolated 2-week period prevalence of fever, in children aged 0–5, by country excluding India, 1990–2012.
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