Non-malarial febrile illness map
The non-malarial febrile illness map allows you to map observations of fever causing organisms across different countries and microorganisms.
In order to map the main causes of fever - once malaria has been excluded - researchers associated with WorldWide Antimalarial Network (WWARN); the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) at the University of Oxford, the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of Otago, University of Hong Kong, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), the MORU Tropical Health Network - Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU) and Cambodia-Oxford Medical Research Unit (COMRU) have conducted thorough systematic reviews of the published literature for all malaria-endemic regions to provide more comprehensive data than anything else available to date.
The results of these comprehensive reviews have been incorporated into an open access, online database that supports an interactive map that can filter data by country, microorganism type, patient age, sample type, pathogen family, genus and species, study year, geographic region and sub-region.
This tool is designed to make the data easily accessible to:
- those involved in advising on or developing case management guidelines and policy on global, regional and national levels;
- researchers designing prospective clinical and epidemiological studies of non-malarial pathogens, and implementation research on case management strategies;
- diagnostic development partnerships.
The work to date has been published as a series in BMC Medicine.