Decreasing incidence of severe malaria and community-acquired bacteraemia among hospitalized children in Muheza, north-eastern Tanzania, 2006-2010

Table 1 Characteristics of the children in the three study groups

	1^st study	2^nd study	3^rd study	Total
Inclusive dates of enrolment	June 2006 to May 2007	June 2007 to February 2008	March 2008 to May 2010	June 2006 to May 2010
Time period	12 months	9 months	27 months	4 years
No of children with at least one sign of severe illness	3, 091	778	2, 967	6, 836
No (%) from Muheza	2, 447 (79)	448 (58)	2, 386 (80)	5, 281 (77)
- Mean (Standard deviation) age	2.2 (2.1)	2.3 (2.2)	2.7 (2.6)	2.4 (2.3)
- No (%) female	1, 157 (47)	217 (48)	1, 048 (44)	2, 422 (46)

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