Acute febrile illness in Africa

摘要

There are very little population-based studies of the aetiology of ambulatory fevers in Africa using a systematic approach. Bacteraemia is likely to be identified and treated only in severe hospitalised cases. In Africa, dispensaries have been established in several areas to diagnose primary malaria for immediate treatment because of its gravity and the risk of mortality associated with the lack of a rapid treatment response. Thus, these dispensaries are able to perform samplings on all patients with fever, even within the first 24 hours, to exclude the diagnosis of malaria.