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. 2020 Jun 17;12(1):2212. doi: 10.4102/phcfm.v12i1.2212

TABLE 3.

Clinical features of the participants.

Characteristics Frequency N = 98 Percentage 95% CI
Symptoms
Fever
 At presentation 88 89.8 82.23–94.37
 Before presentation 83 84.7 76.27–90.50
Refusal of feeds
 At presentation 65 66.3 56.52–74.91
 Before presentation 51 52.0 42.26–61.67
Irritability
 At presentation 26 26.5 18.80–36.04
 Before presentation 16 16.3 10.31–24.89
Vomiting
 At presentation 32 32.7 24.17–42.44
 Before presentation 29 29.6 21.46–39.26
Sign
Raised temperature > 37.5 °C
 At presentation 73 74.5 65.05–82.08
 Mean temperature ±s.d. 38.0°C ± 0.9°C - 36.0–39.9

s.d., standard deviation; CI, confidence interval.