Mean and median weight, height or length, age and WH indices upon admission for all children (n = 68,001).

*<p>data missing for 730 children (including presence of edema for 394 children).</p>**<p>data missing for 674 children.</p

Results of univariate and multivariate analysis without clinical data.

<p>Results of univariate and multivariate analysis without clinical data.</p

Flow diagram of observations retained in the analysis.

<p>Flow diagram of observations retained in the analysis.</p

Additional file 1: of Ciprofloxacin for contacts of cases of meningococcal meningitis as an epidemic response: study protocol for a cluster-randomized trial

Populated SPIRIT checklist. These are our responses to the standard SPIRIT checklist. (DOC 121 kb

Indicators of children at admission in MSF nutritional program, Maradi region, Niger, 2006.

*<p>For continuous variables, the p-value indicates the level of significance from a Student's t-test. For categorical variables, the p-value displayed is for a Chi².</p

Principal outcome for children admitted in MSF nutritional program, Maradi region, Niger, 2006.

*<p>Results exclude 3 outpatient centers with unreliable information.</p>**<p>Children discharged when not responding to treatment: 522.</p

Map of locations of MSF inpatient centers and outpatient units in Maradi, Niger 2006.

<p>Map of locations of MSF inpatient centers and outpatient units in Maradi, Niger 2006.</p

Main clinical diagnosis on admission (left) and laboratory or radiography-confirmed diagnosis (right) in the study population (N = 311).

<p>Main clinical diagnosis on admission (left) and laboratory or radiography-confirmed diagnosis (right) in the study population (N = 311).</p

Socio-demographic, clinical and biological characteristics, overall and by type of infection.

<p>RTI: X-ray proven respiratory tract infection; Malaria: smear-microscopy proven malaria; UTI: culture and cytology-proven urinary tract infection; Infectious diarrhea: diarrhea with microbiologically proven bacterial or parasitic infection or rotavirus infection; NA: not applicable (sign included or excluded from category definition).</p>*<p>p-value (compared to children without this type of infection) <0.05.</p>**<p>p-value <0.01.</p>***<p>p-value <0.001.</p

Enteric pathogens isolated from stool in children with or without diarrhea (N = 307).

<p>Enteric pathogens isolated from stool in children with or without diarrhea (N = 307).</p