A detailed asssessment of severe malaria and severe non malarial illness in Papua New Guinean Children.

巴布亚新几内亚是太平洋地区婴儿和儿童死亡率最高的国家，疟疾占婴儿死亡率的15%。在这种情况下诊断和调查疟疾很困难，因为症状与其他疾病相似。我们的目标是准确描述疟疾、严重非疟疾疾病和死亡率的临床和实验室特征以及危险因素。我们也在调查一起不明原因脑炎的爆发。

PNG has the highest infant and childhood mortality in the Pacific with malaria accounting for 15% of infant mortality. Diagnosing and investigating malaria in this setting is hard because the symptoms are similar to other diseases. We aim to accurately describe clinical and laboratory features and risk factors for malaria, severe non malarial disease and mortality. We are investigating an outbreak of unexplained encephalitis as well.