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. 2016 Apr 7;11(4):e0152965. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152965

Table 3. Summary of clinical diagnoses and deaths, disaggregated by age and MPI groups.

All MPI Poor MPI Non-Poor Poor vs. Non-Poor
n = 527 (18 deaths) n = 269 (16 deaths) n = 258 (2 deaths)
Diagnostic Category n (%) Died n (%) Died n (%) Died P-valuea
Respiratory Tract Infection 110 (21%) . 56 (21%) . 54 (21%) . 0.351
Central Nervous System Infection 93 (18%) 11 61 (23%) 9 32 (12%) 2 0.002
Enteric Feverb 78 (15%) . 31 (12%) . 47 (18%) . 0.037
Urinary Tract Infection 55 (10%) 2 24 (9%) 2 31 (12%) . 0.258
Malaria 38 (7%) 3 28 (10%) 3 10 (4%) . 0.004
Dengue Feverb 34 (6%) . 10 (4%) . 24 (9%) . 0.012
Febrile Convulsion 23 (4%) . 12 (4%) . 11 (4%) . 1.000
Hepatobiliary Infection 23 (4%) . 12 (4%) . 11 (4%) . 1.000
Gastrointestinal Infection 10 (2%) 1 7 (3%) 1 3 (1%) . 0.340
Sepsis 9 (2%) 1 5 (2%) 1 4 (2%) . 1.000
Soft Tissue Infection 8 (2%) . 6 (2%) . 2 (1%) . 0.286
Undifferentiated Febrile Illness 46 (9%) . 17 (6%) . 29 (11%) . 0.063

aComparison of diagnostic category incidence for MPI poor vs. MPI non-poor participants, by Fisher’s exact test.

bEnteric Fever and Dengue Fever were common clinical diagnoses, but could rarely be confirmed by microbiological/virological investigations, due to a lack of laboratory resources.