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

NCT01812785 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1010

Last updated 2013-03-18

No results posted yet for this study

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Geneva

    collaborator OTHER

  • Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Blaise Genton, prof · Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Months
Max Age
10 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-01-31
Primary Completion
2008-12-31
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • Tanzania

Study Locations

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Diseases

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