Table 3. Details of young infants (<3 months) admitted to the hospital with malaria who died.

Patient	Age	Sex	Nutritional status	Plasmodium species	Other medical condition	Malaria treatment	Intravenous antibiotic treatment	Time before death
1	6 days	Female	Severely underweight	Plasmodium falciparum	Neonatal sepsis (clinical diagnosis)	Intravenous quinine	Ampicillin	38 days
2	2 months	Male	Not recorded	P. falciparum	Bronchopneumonia	Intravenous quinine	Ampicillin, gentamicin	4 days
3	2 months 17 days	Male	Not recorded	P. falciparum	Bacterial meningitis (cerebrospinal fluid confirmed)	Intravenous quinine	Ampicillin, gentamicin	6 days
4	2 months 21 days	Female	Severely underweight	P. falciparum	Coma, severe anemia, hypoglyce- mia, metabolic acidosis	Intravenous quinine	Ceftriaxone	Within 24 h
5	3 months	Male	Normal	P. falciparum	Severe anemia with metabolic and respiratory acidosis	No record of malaria treatment	Ceftriaxone and gentamicin	Within 24 h
6	1 month 11 days	Male	Normal	Plasmodium vivax	Coma	Intravenous artesunate	Ampicillin, gentamicin, ceftriaxone	Within 24 h
7	2 months 16 days	Male	Underweight	P. vivax	Respiratory distress and severe anemia	Intravenous artesunate and then oral dihydroartemisinin- piperaquine	Ampicillin	4 days