A novel pancoronavirus RT-PCR assay: frequent detection of human coronavirus NL63 in children hospitalized with respiratory tract infections in Belgium

Table 1 Patients hospitalized with respiratory tract illness associated with HCoV-NL63 infection

Patient nr.	Age	Sex	Symptoms	Underlying disease	Specimen	Sample date
1153^a	1 year	male	URTI: fever, coughing, wheezing, rhinitis, diarrhoea	none	NPA	27 Jan 2003
33545	16 years	male	LRTI: fever, coughing, respiratory distress, pharyngitis	Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome	NPA	14 Feb 2003
21596	1 year	female	LRTI: fever, coughing, respiratory distress	Vater syndrome, epilepsy	NPA	20 Feb 2003
53887	1 month	female	URTI: fever, rhinitis, two siblings have URTI	none	NPA	20 Feb 2003
40001	1 year	male	LRTI: respiratory distress, cardiac arrest, rotavirus-positive diarrhoea	epilepsy	NPA	21 Feb 2003
64880	2 years	male	URTI: fever, coughing, wheezing	neurofibromatosis	NPA	24 Feb 2003
70688^b	1 year	female	LRTI: pneumonia, fever, cyanosis, diarrhoea	none	PS	25 Feb 2004

^apositive for RSV type B; ^bpositive for adenovirus and parainfluenza virus
LRTI, lower respiratory tract illness; URTI, upper respiratory tract illness; PS, pharyngeal swab; NPA, nasopharyngeal aspirate

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