Clinical and laboratory characteristics for the confirmed dengue and OFI patients groups.

Continuous variables are summarized as median (interquartile range); categorical variables are summarized as frequency (%).Missing values for: (a) up to 3, (b) 5, (c) 9, (d) 12, (e) 20, (f) 48 cases.OFI: other febrile illness.*If present, the severity of clinical symptoms was evaluated each day by study physicians using a pre-defined three point scale. For this analysis participants were considered to have persistent vomiting or severe abdominal pain if they scored two or more on the relevant scale, on any day during the acute illness.