Acute undifferentiated febrile illness in rural Cambodia: a 3-year prospective observational study.

ABSTRACT: In the past decade, malaria control has been successfully implemented in Cambodia, leading to a substantial decrease in reported cases. Wide-spread use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) has revealed a large burden of malaria-negative fever cases, for which no clinical management guidelines exist at peripheral level health facilities. As a first step towards developing such guidelines, a 3-year cross-sectional prospective observational study was designed to investigate the causes of acute malaria-negative febrile illness in Cambodia. From January 2008 to December 2010, 1193 febrile patients and 282 non-febrile individuals were recruited from three health centers in eastern and western Cambodia. Malaria RDTs and routine clinical examination were performed on site by health center staf

SUBMITTER: Mueller TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3995936 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature