Table 2. The presenting clinical syndromes diagnosed for 1225 episodes of febrile illness over the one-year study period.
| Age groups | |||||
| Clinical syndrome | <28 days (n = 32) | 28–365 days (n = 330) | 1–5 years (n = 488) | ≥5 years (n = 375) | Total (n = 1225) |
| Lower respiratory tract infection | 8 (25.0%) | 183 (55.5%) | 218 (44.7%) | 60 (16.0%) | 469 (38.3%) |
| Undifferentiated fever | 13 (40.1%) | 36 (10.9%) | 98 (20.1%) | 165 (44.0%) | 312 (25.5%) |
| Diarrhoeal disease | 4 (12.5%) | 104 (31.5%) | 110 (22.5%) | 21 (5.6%) | 239 (19.5%) |
| Skin/soft tissue/bone/joint infection | 4 (12.5%) | 10 (3.0%) | 28 (5.7%) | 46 (12.3%) | 88 (7.2%) |
| Upper respiratory tract infection | 0 | 14 (4.2%) | 36 (7.4%) | 14 (3.7%) | 64 (5.2%) |
| CNS infection | 1 (3.1%) | 12 (3.6%) | 10 (2.0%) | 33 (8.8%) | 56 (4.6%) |
| Genitourinary | 0 | 14 (4.2%) | 12 (2.4%) | 15 (4.0%) | 41 (3.4%) |
| Abdominal disease/surgical abdomen | 0 | 0 | 3 (0.6%) | 18 (4.8%) | 21 (1.7%) |
| Non-infectious cause of fever | 2 (6.3%) | 6 (1.8%) | 16 (3.3%) | 19 (5.1%) | 43 (3.5%) |
| Total clinical diagnoses | 1333 | ||||
| Acute mortality | 6 (18.8%) | 23 (7.0%) | 18 (3.7%) | 22 (5.9%) | 69 (5.6%) |
Within these 1225 episodes, a total of 1333 clinical syndromes were diagnosed: 1120 episodes had a single clinical syndrome diagnosed, 102 episodes had two separate syndromes diagnosed, and three episodes had three separate syndromes diagnosed (i.e. 1333 syndromes in total).