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SUBMITTER: Roddy P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6657909 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roddy Paul P Dalrymple Ursula U Jensen Tomas O TO Dittrich Sabine S Rao V Bhargavi VB Pfeffer Daniel A DA Twohig Katherine A KA Roberts Teri T Bernal Oscar O Guillen Ethan E
PloS one 20190725 7
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 the underlying etiology of SFI cases and scant SFI-specific causative-agent prevalence data. To highlight the public health significance of SFI in SSA, we developed a Bayesian model to quantify the inc ...[more]