Quantifying the incidence of severe-febrile-illness hospital admissions in sub-Saharan Africa.

Severe-febrile-illness (SFI) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The burden of SFI in SSA is currently unknown and its estimation is fraught with challenges. This is due to a lack of diagnostic capacity for SFI in SSA, and thus a dearth of baseline data on t...

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Main Authors: Paul Roddy, Ursula Dalrymple, Tomas O Jensen, Sabine Dittrich, V Bhargavi Rao, Daniel A Pfeffer, Katherine A Twohig, Teri Roberts, Oscar Bernal, Ethan Guillen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220371