PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | meningitis, bacterial |
| Phenotype | C0024530|malaria |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 21482551 | Febrile seizures were defined as seizures in children aged between 1 month and 6 years who had a febrile illness without malaria parasitaemia or evidence of bacterial meningitis (berkley et al., 2001) or encephalitis (cerebrospinal fluid white cell count >50/µl).table 1case definitions for children admitted with acute symptomatic seizures and the number of cases admitted from the demographic surveillance system areacase categorycriterianumber of casesaacute seizuresseizures in the current illness and within 1 week prior to admission4486slide-positive seizuresseizures in children admitted with malaria parasitaemia2762slide-negative seizuresseizures in children admitted without malaria parasitaemia1724repetitive seizuresmore than one seizure in the current illness2181focal seizuresconvulsions localized to one part of the body512definite convulsive status epilepticusseizures lasting >30 min or intermittent seizures for >30 min with a blantyre coma score ≤2 on admission and documented by nursing or medical staff219probable convulsive status epilepticusconvulsions on the way to hospital until admission462a blantyre coma score ≤2 on admission and definite history of a seizure in last 30 minutes or definite history of >10 seizures in last 24 huse of phenytoin or phenobarbital to stop uncontrolled seizurespossible convulsive status epilepticusa blantyre coma score ≤2 on admission and either a definite history of a seizure in last 30 min or possible history of 5–10 seizures in last 24 h266definite history of a seizure lasting 30 mindefinite history of >5 seizures in last 24 hnon-malaria attributable seizuressum of malaria slide-negative seizures and slide-positive seizures not attributable to malaria1844malaria attributable seizuresmalaria slide-positive seizures attributable to malaria2642febrile seizuresseizures in children aged 1 month to 6 years who had a febrile illness without evidence of parasitaemia or bacterial meningitis or encephalitis1126total person-yearsthe total population figures for children were made at the midpoint of the years of study by fitting a log-linear regression line through the observed population counts.689 053athe total numbers identified and summed together for each case category. |
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