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| Variables | Number of children (%) (N = 251) |
| Season | Rainy season | 142 (56.6) |
| Dry season | 109 (43.4) | |
| Age | ≤2 month | 72 (28.7) |
| 3 - 24 month | 86 (34.3) | |
| 25 - 60 month | 93 (37.1) | |
| Sex | Female | 98 (39) |
| Male | 153 (61) | |
| Address | Rural | 142 (56.6) |
| Urban | 109 (43.4) | |
| Vaccine statute | Not fully vaccinated* | 125 (49.8) |
| ATB used previously | ATB used | 129 (51.4) |
| Nutritional statute | Malnutrition** | 50 (19.9) |
| Transfer | Transfer | 91 (36.3) |
| Symptoms | Fever | 251 (100) |
| Convulsion | 191 (76.1) | |
| Coma | 148 (59) | |
| Incessant crying | 26 (10.4) | |
| Hyperesthesia | 21 (8.4) | |
| Diarrhea/vomiting | 58 (23.1) | |
| Rapid or difficult breathing | 49 (19.5) | |
| Hustle | 18 (7.2) | |
| Boomed anterior fontanel | 32 (12.7) |