Differentiating causes of febrile illness in Burkina Faso: data from an accuracy study comparing gold standard culture techniques with a haemocytometry based algorithm (IMS), procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP)

Different causes of acute febrile illness due to different infectious diseases (e.g. bacterial, viral malaria) may present with a similar clinical presentation. We performed a clinical diagnostic study to assess the diagnostic accuracy of a new tool - the Infection Manager System (IMS) - an algorithm which uses haemocytometric data to predict the cause of infection (e.g. bacterial, viral, malaria). The current dataset is a subset of data obtained during this study which was performed in a rural setting in Burkina Faso. The study was registered at ClinicalTrials.org under Identifier NCT02669823. All data used for the manuscript entitled \"Infection Manager System (IMS) as a new hemocytometry-based bacteremia detection tool: a diagnostic accuracy study in a malaria-endemic area of Burkina Faso\" are included in the current subset of data.

To test the IMS we collected clinical and demographic data from approximately 900 patients aged between 3 months and 100 years presenting with an acu...