Retrospective study on the usefulness of pulse oximetry for the identification of young children with severe illnesses and severe pneumonia in a rural outpatient clinic of Papua New Guinea

• Julien Blanc ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Julien Blanc, Nicolas Senn

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: blanc.julien@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7537-2763

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• Isabella Locatelli ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Patricia Rarau ,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Vector Borne Disease Unit, PNG Institute of Medical Research, Madang (MAD), Papua New Guinea

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• Ivo Mueller ,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Vector Borne Disease Unit, PNG Institute of Medical Research, Madang (MAD), Papua New Guinea, Population Health & Immunity Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia, Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGLOBAL), Barcelona, Spain, Malaria, Parasites & Hosts Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Blaise Genton ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Infectious Diseases Service, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Noémie Boillat-Blanco ,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Infectious Diseases Service, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Mario Gehri ,

  Roles Data curation, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Children’s Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Nicolas Senn

  Contributed equally to this work with: Julien Blanc, Nicolas Senn

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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