Table 2.

Actual etiologies of fever among febrile pediatric and adult inpatients in northern Tanzania, 2007–2008^a

Etiology of fever among pediatric inpatients	%	Etiology of fever among adult inpatients	%
Infectious diseases from animal contactb	20.2	Infectious disease from animal contactd	33.3
Other infectious diseasesc	13.2	Other infectious diseasese	25.1
Typhoid fever	1.3	Typhoid fever	6.5
Malaria	1.3	Malaria	2.0
		Acute HIV	0.1

^aData from (Hertz et al. 2012, Biggs et al. 2011, Prabhu et al. 2011, Crump et al. 2011a, Crump et al. 2011b)

^bLeptospirosis 7.7%, spotted fever group rickettsioses 7.4%, Q fever 2.6%, Brucellosis 2.0%

^cArboviral infections 10.2%, invasive bacterial diseases other than Salmonella Typhi 2.1%, invasive fungal diseases 0.9%

^dLeptospirosis 10.1%, spotted fever group rickettsioses 8.7%, Q fever 7.9%, Brucellosis 5.3%, typhus group rickettsioses 1.0%

^eInvasive bacterial diseases other than Salmonella Typhi 10.7%, arboviral infections 5.7%, invasive fungal diseases 5.2%, invasive mycobacterial infections 3.5%