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Febrile Illnesses Resulting in Hospital Admission: A Bacteriological and Serological Study in Jakarta, Indonesia
A study of 741 Indonesian patients with fever was carried out in order to determine what serious febrile illnesses are prevalent in Jakarta. All patients were hospitalized primarily because of fever and were studied by bacteriological and serological methods. Bacteremia due to Salmonella typhi (150 cases), S. enteritidis (36 cases), or both (2 cases) was common in both children and adults. One S. enteritidis isolate was chloramphenicol resistant. Serological evidence of Salmonella infection was found in 130 additional cases without bacteremia. Serological evidence of arbovirus infection (94 cases) was common in children. Malaria was found in 12 adults, most of whom were probably infected outside Jakarta. Little serological evidence was found for rickettsial, leptospiral, Brucella, Toxoplasma gondii or a number of other infections. Clinical signs and symptoms in the febrile patients studied were generally nonspecific, and laboratory results reported were very helpful in establishing more accurate diagnoses.
Author Notes
Present address: The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021.
Present address: The Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20014.
Present address: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
Present address: The Naval Regional Medical Center, Box 529, San Diego, California 92134.