Burden of malaria is higher among children in an internal displacement camp compared to a neighbouring village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Table 3 Clinical characteristics of children presenting to the clinic for treatment of febrile illness

Clinical characteristics	Malarial febrile illness			Non-malarial febrile illness
Clinical characteristics	IDP	Village	P value	IDP	Village	P value
Seizure	18 (23 %)	8 (21 %)	0.75	4 (18 %)	13 (21 %)	0.76
Coma	1 (1.3 %)	0 (0 %)	0.48	1 (4.5 %)	3 (4.9 %)	0.94
Anaemia	10 (13 %)	4 (10 %)	0.70	4 (18 %)	5 (8.2 %)	0.20
Trouble breathing	51 (65 %)	15 (39 %)	0.006	13 (59 %)	44 (72 %)	0.26

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