Prevalence and clinical features of respiratory syncytial virus in children hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia in northern Brazil

Table 1 Epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory characteristics of RSV-positive and RSV-negative children hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia in Belém, Para, Brazil

Characteristics	RSV- positive 243 (23.1%)		RSV-negative 807 (76.9%)			Groups (n)
	n	%	n	%	p	A	B	p
Age (years)
0 - 1	152/241	63.1	340/805	42.1	<0.001	10/18	135/207	0.282
Gender
Male	126/243	51.8	449/807	55.6	0.113	9/18	108/207	0.542
C-Reactive protein
≤48 mg/dL	155/178 87.0		469/632 74.2		<0.001	9/13	133/151	<0.001
Radiographs
Interstitial infiltrate	117	54.2	366	50.3	0.085	9	102	0.235
Alveolar infiltrate	49	22.7	164	22.5		1	45
Lobar pneumonia	50	23.1	198	27.2		5	39
Bacterial culture
Positive	11^Δ/109	10.0	17^*/381	04.5	0.043	1/8	10/92	0.342

^Δ S. epidermidis (3 patients), A. baumannii (2), S. pneumoniae (1), Com. acidovorans (1), K. pneumoniae (1), Gram Positive (1), Candida spp (1), other fungi (1).
* S. pneumoniae (4 patients), S. epidermidis (3), Tetrads (3), Gram Positive (3), K. pneumoniae (2), S. viridians (1), A. baumannii (1).

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