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. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.26.

Lal, S. Acute Uncomplicated Febrile Illness in Children Aged 2-59 months in Zanzibar - Aetiologies, Antibiotic Treatment and Outcome [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2015. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.26.

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

Description

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.

Methods

Data capture method

Questionnaire: Fixed form

Data Collection Period

From	To
April 2011	July 2011

Date (Date published in a 3rd party system)

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

People & Groups

Data Creators	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