Figure 4.

Disease severity and mortality among dengue patients. (A) Bars show the number of dengue patients admitted to the three study hospitals each year from 1996 to 2009 by disease severity. Red bars show pediatric DF/DHF (striped) and DSS (solid) cases. White and blue bars show adult DF/DHF (white) and DSS (blue) cases. Note that 1996 to 1999 excludes data from Children's Hospital Number 2, because figures on disease severity were not available. (B) Lines show the case fatality rate among all pediatric (≤ 15 years; solid line) and adult (> 15 years; dotted line) dengue patients admitted to the three study hospitals each year from 1996 to 2009. This figure appears in color at www.ajtmh.org.