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Table 2 Samples excluded from the analysis due to insufficient volume and the samples included in the analysis by site

From: Performance of C-reactive protein and procalcitonin to distinguish viral from bacterial and malarial causes of fever in Southeast Asia

Cause of fever

Excluded due to low volume n (%)

Cambodia n (%)

Laos n (%)

Thailand n (%)

Total n (%)

Aetiological group (% of samples with single infection)

Dengue

98 (25)

81 (19)

75 (14)

157 (37)

313 (23)

Viral, n = 555 (50)

Japanese encephalitis

38 (10)

26 (6)

81 (16)

5 (1)

112 (8)

Influenza/RSV

23 (6)

32 (8)

98 (19)

NA

130 (9)

Rickettsial infectiona

56 (15)

36 (8)

89 (17)

92 (21)

217 (16)

Rickettsia/Leptospira, n = 334 (30)

Leptospirosis

39 (10)

7 (2)

70 (14)

40 (9)

117 (9)

Bacteraemia

46 (12)

59 (14)

20 (4)

11 (3)

91 (7)

Bacteraemia, n = 91 (8)

Malaria

10 (3)

6 (1)

15 (3)

104 (24)

125 (9)

Malaria, n = 125 (12)

Multiple pathogens

73 (19)

179 (42)

68 (13)

21 (5)

267 (19)

 

Total

383

426 (100)

516 (100)

433 (100)

1372 (100)

1105

  1. These samples were a sub-set of the original study, to include only those with identified infections. The main focus of the analysis was on those samples with a single pathogen that was identified as the cause of illness (allowing for co-infection with malaria PCR positive microscopy/RDT negative cases which are not assumed to be the cause of fever)
  2. aScrub or murine typhus