Fig 1.
Literature search and abstract screening process used to determine the eligibility of publications on etiologies of acute febrile illness, published from January 01, 2005 to December 31, 2017 (N = 190).
Fig 2.
Geographic distribution by study location and number of study participants of publications on etiologies of acute febrile illness published from January 01, 2005 to December 31, 2017 (N = 190).
(Source: Created specifically for this manuscript, using Epi Info 7; shape files from: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/; data abstracted from full-text review process).
Table 1.
Data collection duration and characteristics of study sites reported by publications on etiologies of acute febrile illness published from January 01, 2005 to December 31, 2017 (N = 190).
Table 2.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria used to enroll study participants in studies on etiologies of acute febrile illness published from January 01, 2005 to December 31, 2017 (N = 190).
Fig 3.
Number of publications by pathogen investigated as an etiology of acute febrile illness stratified by total number of investigated pathogens in the publication, from January 01, 2005 to December 31, 2017 (N = 190).
Table 3.
Diagnostic methods used to identify pathogens represented in ≥10 publications on etiologies of acute febrile illness, published from January 01, 2005 to December 31, 2017.
Table 4.
Proposed reporting standard for studies on etiologic investigations of acute febrile illness, based on review of existing publications on AFI etiology, published from January 01, 2005 to December 31, 2017.