Patients
acute febrile illness, fever, ill
After providing informed consent and/or assent, participants aged 6 months to <18 years of both sexes with nonsevere acute febrile illness, defined as a temperature of >37.5°C or a history of fever within the last 7 days, who were willing to provide blood and other less invasive specimens following the protocol and available for a follow-up visit were recruited equally into the intervention or control (standard-of-care practice) arm of the study. Severely ill patients who required hospitalization were excluded. Details of the study protocol are published elsewhere [