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. 2014 Mar 13;9(3):e90990. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090990

Table 2. Clinical and paraclinical features of 6975 illness episodes.

% (N)
Danger signs
Unable to eat 0.6 44
Vomit everything 0.5 38
Unconscious/drowsy 1.4 95
Respiratory distress 1.7 117
Fits 0.8 58
Inability to sit up 0.2 12
Neck stifness 0.1 8
Severe Dehydration 0.7 49
Pale with heart rate >160 or oedema 0.2 17
Main signs, symptoms
Fever (temp>37.5°/hist of fev) 80.3 5603
Palor 2.7 185
Cough 76.4 5332
Difficulties in breathing 14.9 1037
Running nose 46.2 3207
Diarrhoea 21.1 1474
Abdominal pain 2.7 191
Vomit 10.2 713
Ear pain 0.6 44
Skin rash 0.3 13
Skin abscess 1 67
Pus out of the ear 2.6 183
Respiratory rate >50 19.9 1390
Laboratory findings
Pulse O2<94% 3.4 54*
Pulse O2<93% 2.7 42*
Mean Hb level (g/L) 9.6
Hb <8 g/L 11.1 626**

*only 1582 records with pulse oxymetry measured.

**only 5644 records with Hb measured.