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Table 1 Demographic characteristics, clinical symptoms and basic laboratory findings of study subjects enrolled in the present study in four rural health centres and one referral hospital in Nanoro Health district

From: Treatable causes of fever among children under five years in a seasonal malaria transmission area in Burkina Faso

Category

Subcategory

N

Proportion (%)

Gender

Male

369

53.95

Female

315

46.05

Age

≤12 months

201

29.39

>12 months

483

70.61

Temperature

≥37.5 °C–≤38.5 °C

340

49.71

>38.5 °C–≤39.5 °C

242

35.38

>39.5 °C

102

14.91

Duration of fever

1 day

108

15.79

2–3 days

518

75.73

4–7 days

56

8.19

>7 days

2

0.29

Vaccination according to the EPI

Yes

449

65.64

No

133

19.44

Unknown

102

14.91

Common symptoms

Cough

335

48.98

Diarrhoea

266

38.89

Vomiting

123

17.98

Others

55

8.04

Basic laboratory findings

Haemoglobin rate

  

< 8 g/dl

180

26.32

≥ 8 g/dl–<11 g/dl

418

61.11

≥11 g/dl

86

12.57

White blood cells

  

<4 × 103 cells/mm3

10

1.46

≥4 ×103 cells/mm3–< 12 × 103 cells/mm3

348

50.88

≥12 × 103 cells/mm3

326

47.66

  1. EPI Expanded program of immunization