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From: Assessment of severe malaria in a multicenter, phase III, RTS, S/AS01 malaria candidate vaccine trial: case definition, standardization of data collection and patient care

Figure 3

Algorithm-based evaluation of severely sick children. 1 simple febrile seizure is defined as associated with fever, lasts for 5 minutes or less, generalized as opposed to focal, not followed by transient or persistent neurological abnormalities, occurring in a child ³ 6 months of age, with full recovery within 1 hour; 2 BCS < 5 except in infants ≤ 9 months of age < 4, in association with best motor response of 1; 3 ≥ 50 breaths/minute in children under 1 year of age, and ≥ 40 breaths/minute in children over 1 year of age.

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Malaria Journal

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