Table 1. Etiology of severe febrile illness in low- and middle-income countries systematic review search terms.
| Geographic terms | Etiology terms | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area | Region | Country | Group | Pathogen (disease) |
| Africa | Eastern Africa | Burundi | Bacterial | (‘blood stream infections’/ ‘blood stream pathogens’/bacteremia/ bacteremia/septicemia/septicaemia fever/sepsis/’septic shock’) |
| Comoros | Bacterial zoonoses | ‘Anaplasma phagocytophilum’/ (anaplasmosis) | ||
| Djibouti | ‘Bartonella bacilliformis’/ (‘Carrión's disease’)/’Bartonella henselae’/ (‘cat scratch disease’)/’Bartonella Quintana’/ (‘trench fever’) | |||
| Eritrea | Borrelia /(borreliosis) | |||
| Ethiopia | Brucella/(brucellosis) | |||
| Kenya | Coxiella/ (‘acute Q fever’) | |||
| Madagascar | Ehrlichia/(ehrlichiosis) | |||
| Malawi | Leptospira/ (leptospirosis) | |||
| Mozambique | ‘Neorickettsia sennetsu’ | |||
| Rwanda | ‘Orientia tsutsugamushi’/(‘scrub typhus’) | |||
| Somalia | Rickettsia/ (murine typhus/’Spotted fever group rickett*/’Typhus group rickett*‘ | |||
| Seychelles | ||||
| Tanzania/’United Republic of Tanzania’ | Fungal | ‘Coccidioides immitis’/ (fungemia/mycoses/coccidiodomycosis) | ||
| Uganda | ‘Cryptococcus neoformans’ (fungemia/mycoses/cryptococcosis) | |||
| Zambia | Histoplasma/ (fungemia/mycoses/ histoplasmosis) | |||
| Zimbabwe | Candida/(fungemia/mycoses/ candidiasis/candidemia) | |||
| Middle Africa | Angola | ‘Blastomyces dermatitidis’/ (fungemia/mycoses/blastomycoses) | ||
| Cameroon | ||||
| ‘Central African Republic’ | Viral | Dengue/(‘dengue fever’ ‘dengue hemorrhagic fever’/’DF’/’DHF’) | ||
| Chad | ‘Chikungunya virus’/ (chikungunya) | |||
| Congo | ‘Yellow fever virus’/ (‘yellow fever’) | |||
| Congo/’Democratic Republic of the Congo’ | ‘West Nile virus’/ (‘West Nile’) | |||
| ‘Equatorial Guinea’ | Influenza/(‘human influenza’) | |||
| Gabon | ‘Measles virus’/(measles) | |||
| ‘Sao Tome and Principe’ | ||||
| Northern Africa | Egypt | Blood parasite | ‘Plasmodium falciparum’/’Plasmodium malariae’/ ‘Plasmodium vivax’/ (malaria) | |
| Morocco | ‘Babesia microti’/(babesiosis) | |||
| ‘South Sudan’ | ‘ Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense’/’Trypanosoma brucei gambiense’ /’Trypanosoma cruzi’ /(‘African trypanosomiasis’) | |||
| Sudan | ‘Leishmaniasis donovani’ /(‘Visceral leishmaniasis’) | |||
| Tunisia | ||||
| Southern Africa | Botswana | |||
| Lesotho | ||||
| Namibia | ||||
| ‘South Africa’ | ||||
| Swaziland | ||||
| Western Africa | Benin | |||
| ‘Burkina Faso’ | ||||
| ‘Cape Verde’ | ||||
| ‘Cote d'Ivoire’ /’Ivory Coast’ | ||||
| Gambia | ||||
| Ghana | ||||
| Guinea | ||||
| ‘Guinea-Bissau’ | ||||
| Liberia | ||||
| Mali | ||||
| Mauritania | ||||
| Niger | ||||
| Nigeria | ||||
| Senegal | ||||
| ‘Sierra Leone’ | ||||
| Togo | ||||
| Latin America and the Caribbean | The Caribbean | ‘Dominican Republic’ | ||
| Haiti | ||||
| Central America | Belize | |||
| El Salvador | ||||
| Guatemala | ||||
| Honduras | ||||
| Nicaragua | ||||
| Panama | ||||
| South America | Bolivia | |||
| Guyana | ||||
| Paraguay | ||||
| Suriname | ||||
| Asia | South-Central Asia | Afghanistan | ||
| Bangladesh | ||||
| Bhutan | ||||
| India | ||||
| Kyrgyzstan | ||||
| Maldives | ||||
| Nepal | ||||
| Pakistan | ||||
| Tajikistan | ||||
| Turkmenistan | ||||
| Uzbekistan | ||||
| Eastern Asia | China | |||
| Mongolia | ||||
| South-Eastern Asia | Cambodia | |||
| Indonesia | ||||
| ‘Lao People's Democratic Republic’ | ||||
| Myanmar/Burma | ||||
| Philippines | ||||
| Thailand | ||||
| Timor-Leste | ||||
| Viet Nam | ||||
| Western Asia | Iraq | |||
| Jordan | ||||
| ‘State of Palestine’/ ‘Occupied Palestinian Territory’/ Palestine | ||||
| ‘Syrian Arab Republic’/ Syria | ||||
| Yemen | ||||
| Oceania | Melanesia | Fiji | ||
| ‘Papua New Guinea’ | ||||
| ‘Solomon Islands’ | ||||
| Vanuatu | ||||
| Micronesia | Kiribati | |||
| ‘Micronesia’/ ‘Federated States of Micronesia’ | ||||
| Polynesia | Samoa | |||
| Tonga | ||||
| Europe | Eastern Europe | |||
* Truncated term used.