Table 1.
Summary of Demographic Characteristics of Study Population
| Total | Bauchia | Lagosb | Edoc | Kwarad | Enugue | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Category | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) |
| Age | 0–11 m | 3014 (58.7) | 230 (32.4) | 1473 (72.3) | 588 (67.1) | 222 (37.1) | 501 (54.9) |
| 12–23 m | 798 (15.5) | 120 (16.9) | 222 (10.9) | 120 (13.7) | 127 (21.2) | 209 (22.9) | |
| 24–59 m | 1234 (24.0) | 358 (50.4) | 264 (13.0) | 164 (18.7) | 247 (41.3) | 201 (22.0) | |
| Unknown | 88 (1.7) | 2 (0.3) | 79 (3.9) | 4 (0.5) | 2 (0.3) | 1 (0.1) | |
| Sex | Female | 2147 (41.8) | 300 (42.3) | 843 (41.4) | 356 (40.6) | 269 (45.0) | 379 (41.6) |
| Male | 2969 (57.8) | 410 (57.7) | 1181 (57.9) | 516 (58.9) | 329 (55.0) | 533 (58.4) | |
| Unknown | 18 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 14 (0.7) | 4 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Antibiotic before admission | Yes | 743 (14.5) | 62 (8.7) | 313 (15.4) | 24 (2.7) | 85 (14.2) | 259 (28.4) |
| No | 2972 (57.9) | 581 (81.8) | 622 (30.5) | 834 (95.2) | 329 (55.0) | 606 (66.4) | |
| Unknown | 1419 (27.6) | 67 (9.4) | 1103 (54.1) | 18 (2.1) | 184 (30.8) | 47 (5.2) | |
| Outcome diagnosis | Meningitis | 363 (7.1) | 107 (15.1) | 87 (4.3) | 42 (4.8) | 22 (3.7) | 105 (11.5) |
| Pneumonia | 72 (1.4) | 37 (5.2) | 11 (0.5) | 4 (0.5) | 12 (2.0) | 8 (0.9) | |
| Septicemia | 235 (4.6) | 26 (3.7) | 101 (5.0) | 4 (0.5) | 34 (5.7) | 70 (7.7) | |
| Other/multiple | 1022 (19.9) | 301 (42.4) | 120 (5.9) | 173 (19.7) | 255 (42.6) | 173 (19.0) | |
| Unknown | 3442 (67.0) | 239 (33.7) | 1719 (84.3) | 653 (74.5) | 275 (46.0) | 556 (61.0) | |
| Outcome | Discharged Alive | 3107 (60.5) | 561 (79.0) | 935 (45.9) | 308 (35.2) | 456 (76.3) | 847 (92.9) |
| Died | 278 (5.4) | 93 (13.1) | 49 (2.4) | 52 (5.9) | 39 (6.5) | 45 (4.9) | |
| Unknown | 1749 (34.1) | 56 (7.9) | 1054 (51.7) | 516 (58.9) | 103 (17.2) | 20 (2.2) | |
| Total no. of suspected cases recruitedf | 5134 (100.0) | 710 (13.8) | 2038 (39.7) | 876 (17.1) | 598 (11.6) | 912 (17.8) |
aAbubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital.
bLagos University Teaching Hospital.
cUniversity of Benin Teaching Hospital.
dUniversity of Ilorin Teaching Hospital.
eUniversity of Nigeria Teaching Hospital.
fSuspected cases include cases that were defined as probable per World Health Organization case definition guidelines [16].