Background Primary health care settings and hospitals of low-and middle-income countries
have few accessible diagnostic tools and limited laboratory and human resources capacity …

Background Fever is among the most common symptoms of people living in Africa, and
clinicians are challenged by the similar clinical features of a wide spectrum of potential …

Introduction Fever commonly leads to healthcare seeking and hospital admission in sub-
Saharan Africa and Asia. There is only limited guidance for clinicians managing non …

Background Evidence on the relative importance of various factors associated with febrile
illness in children and their heterogeneity across countries can inform the prevention …

Background The availability of reliable point-of-care tests for malaria has heralded a
paradigm shift in the management of febrile illnesses away from presumptive antimalarial …

Background Febrile illness is frequent among patients in the tropics. It is caused by a wide
variety of common diseases such as malaria or gastrointestinal infections but also by less …

Objectives To provide an overview of the most frequent aetiologies found in febrile episodes
of children under 5 years from sub‐Saharan Africa. Methods MEDLINE and EMBASE were …

Background With apparent declines in malaria worldwide during the last decade and more
widespread use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests, healthcare workers in low-resource areas …

Background The diagnosis of non-malarial aetiologies, which now represent the majority of
febrile illnesses, has remained problematic in settings with limited laboratory capacity. We …

Introduction The syndrome of fever is a commonly presenting complaint among persons
seeking healthcare in low-resource areas, yet the public health community has not …