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Table 4 Cross table of serious bacterial infection (SBI) categories

From: Performance of prediction rules and guidelines in detecting serious bacterial infections among Tanzanian febrile children

	SBI categories, % (n), N = 1005
	Meningitis	Pneumonia	Bacteremia	UTI	Typhoid	Cellulitis/ Abscess	Bacterial gastroenteritis	Leptospirosis	Intracellular bacteria
Meningitis	0.2 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pneumonia		3.1 (31)	0	0	0.4 (4)	0	0	0	0
Bacteremia^a			1.7 (18)	0.4 (4)	0.4 (4)	0	0.1 (1)	0	0
UTI				5.9 (59)	0.1 (1)	0	0	0	0
Typhoid					3.7 (37)	0	0.2 (2)	0	0
Cellulitis/ Abscess						0.5 (5)	0	0	0
Bacterial gastroenteritis							1.4 (14)	0	0
Leptospirosis								0.4 (4)	0
Intracellular bacteria									1.1 (11)

^a positive blood culture for a known pathogen other than Salmonella typhi

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