Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST ABc18R0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. In this cohort study, the authors studied the effect of blood malaria parasite density on fever incidence in children in an endemic area with 9 days'follow-up of 1 - to 12-year-old children during two time periods : the end of the dry season (May 1993 : n=783) and the end of the rainy season (October 1993 : n=841) in Bougoula, West Africa (region of Sikasso, Mali). The cumulative incidence of fever (temperature>38.0°C) was 2.0% in the dry season and 8.2% in the rainy season (p15,000/mul (RR=2.7,95% CI 1.4-5.4) ; in children with an enlarged spleen (RR=2.0,95% CI 1.2-3.3) ; or in those with anemia (hematocrit
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