Table 3. Summary of clinical diagnoses and deaths, disaggregated by age and MPI groups.
All | MPI Poor | MPI Non-Poor | Poor vs. Non-Poor | ||||
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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.