Sex as a determinant of disease severity and clinical outcome in febrile children under five presenting to a regional referral hospital in Uganda

• Chloe R. McDonald ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chloe R. McDonald, Andrea M. Weckman

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

  Affiliation SAR Laboratories, Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

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• Andrea M. Weckman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chloe R. McDonald, Andrea M. Weckman

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations SAR Laboratories, Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2200-4008

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• Emma Richardson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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• Michael T. Hawkes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4122-0937

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• Aleksandra Leligdowicz,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations SAR Laboratories, Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Sophie Namasopo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Kabale Regional Referral Hospital, Kabale, Uganda

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• Robert O. Opoka,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Mulago Hospital and Makerere University, Kawempe, Kampala, Uganda

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• Andrea L. Conroy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Kevin C. Kain

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kevin.kain@uhn.ca

  Affiliations SAR Laboratories, Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network-Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, Tropical Disease Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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