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We acknowledge the contributions of the research assistants at the Ifakara Health Institute and Mbeya Medical Research Centre—National Institute of Medical Research, who assisted in the data collection, the Information Technology staff at Unisanté (S. Schaufelberger and G. Martin) and staff at Wavemind (E. Barchichat, A. Fresco and Q. Girard) for their work on the medAL-suite during the study, the health-care providers in the participating health facilities and the Community Health Management Team members in the five participating councils in Tanzania for their collaboration in implementing the study. We acknowledge researchers of the Tools of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness and DYNAMIC Rwanda project for their contributions to ePOCT+ and the many common research activities (F. Beynon, T. Glass, L. Matata, H. Langet, L. Boole, L. Cobuccio, V. Rwandacu, R. Moshiro, M. Norris and L. Cleveley). We thank the Tanzania expert panel for their valuable work in helping to develop the ePOCT+ Tanzania algorithm (K. Manji, N. Salim, H. Naburi, J. Massaro, D. Moshi, W. Ndembeka, L. Chirande and E. Mbao). We thank M.-A. Hartley for her work on the initial project proposal and guidance on various aspects of the DYNAMIC TZ project, A. Chaouch for his help in conducting the independent sample size recalculation and A. Chandna for his valuable comments on the manuscript. We especially thank all the patients and caregivers who participated in the study. Finally we acknowledge the work of I. Masanja on the initial development of the study, who regrettably passed away before the start of the study. This work was supported by a grant from the Fondation Botnar, Switzerland (grant number 6278) (V.D.A.) and from the Swiss Development Cooperation (project number 7F-10361.01.01) (V.D.A.). The study sponsor (Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Unisanté, University of Lausanne) led the study design, the writing of the report and the decision to submit the article for publication. The funders of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation or writing of the report.