BTsera

Serology results for 225 adults with sepsis in Blantyre, Malawi

BTsera

Format

A data frame with 224 rows and 29 variables:

pid

Study identifier

dayxx_yyy_IgM

Variable describes presence or absence (pos = detected, neg = not detected, NA = no valid result) of IgM for day xx samples for pathogen yyy where xx is (0 = day 0, 28 = day 28) and yyy is (den = Dengue, chick = Chikungunya, lepto = Leptospirosis, SF = Spotted fever group Rickettsioses, ET = Epidemic Typhus group Ricketssioses)

dayxx_yyy_IgG

Variable describes presence or absence (pos = detected, neg = not detected, no valid result) of IgM for day xx samples for pathogen yyy where xx is (0 = day 0, 28 = day 28) and yyy is (den = Dengue, chick = Chikungunya, lepto = Leptospirosis, SF = Spotted fever group Rickettsioses, ET = Epidemic Typhus group Ricketssioses)

suffix_OD

Numeric value of optical denisty of ELISA measurement

suffix_dilution

Dilution of EIA measurement

Serum was missing for one participant wjo is excluded from these data