Figure 4.
Severity of enteric fever with age. A, Proportion of typhoid patients hospitalized in the IPD (black), compared to proportion of typhoid patients treated in the OPD (gray), in each age group. B, Proportion of paratyphoid patients hospitalized in the IPD (black), compared to proportion of paratyphoid patients treated in the OPD (gray), in each age group. C, Distribution of durations of hospital stays of typhoid cases in each age group. D, Distribution of durations of hospital stays of paratyphoid cases in each age group. E, Distribution of durations of hospital stays of both typhoid and paratyphoid cases. Abbreviations: IPD, inpatient departments; OPD, outpatient departments. *Designates a significant difference of P < .001 (Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test or Kruskal-Wallis tests were performed, depending on the group numbers).