Virological and clinical characterizations of respiratory infections in hospitalized children

Table 3 The distribution of clinical diagnoses

	n	%	URTI only	URTI + LRTI	LRTI only	Bronchiolitis*	Pneumonia*	Asthma*
AdV	27	26.2	22†	5	0	1	4	0
BoV	1		0	0	1	0	1	0
CoV	3		2	1	0	0	0	1
FluA&B	13	12.6	6	2	5	1	4	2
MPV	13	12.6	3	3	7	2	7	1
PIV1-4	20	19.4	7	6	7	1	11	1
RhV	19	18.5	10	3	6	1	6	2
RSV	33	32.0	6	5	22†	10	14	3
Coinfection	21	20.4	11	7	3	0	9	1
Single	82	79.6	30	10	42	16	28	8
TOTAL	103		41	17	45	16 (15.5%)	37 (36%)	9 (8.7%)

*: These patients are subgroups of LRTI. †: P<0.05.
The discharge diagnoses of patients were divided as “URTI only” (39.8%), URTI + LRTI (16.5%), and “LRTI only” (43.7%). Among LRTI and URTI + LRTI patients, the discharge diagnoses were bronchiolitis (15.5%), bronchopneumonia (36%) and asthmatic attack (8.7%).

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