NCT01812785

Study to Investigate the Causes of Fever in Children Living in Urban Dar es Salaam and Rural Ifakara

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,010 (actual)
• Sponsor: Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Months – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal is to improve the evidence-based management of fever cases seen in outpatient clinics in malaria endemic countries, through a better understanding of the value of accurate malaria diagnosis, and through an improved understanding of the other causes of fever in children. The objective is to describe systematically (as much as possible) the etiologies of fever in children in an urban and in a rural environment of sub-Saharan Africa.

Conditions

• Fever
• Children
• Infectious Diseases

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-01-01
• Primary completion: 2008-12-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2013-03-18
• Last updated: 2013-03-18

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Tanzania