|
Clinical symptoms
|
Total of patients
|
Patients positive for Bordetella pertussis
|
Patients positive for RSV
|
|---|
|
Frequency (n = 596)
|
Frequency (n = 114)
|
Frecuency (n = 103)
|
|---|
|
N (%)
|
N (%)
|
N (%)
|
|---|
|
Fever
|
596 (100)
|
114 (100)
|
103 (100)
|
|
Cough
|
448 (75.2)
|
82 (71.9)a
|
92 (89.32)*
|
|
Rinorrhea
|
448 (75.2)
|
90 (78.9)
|
91(88.35)
|
|
Respiratory distress
|
366 (61.4)
|
69 (60.5)a
|
79 (76.70)*
|
|
Wheezing respiratory
|
230 (38.6)
|
40 (35.1)a
|
59 (57.28)*
|
|
Malaise
|
150 (25.2)
|
28 (24.6)
|
24 (23.30)
|
|
Pharyngeal congestion
|
150 (25.2)
|
25 (21.9)a
|
35 (33.98)*
|
|
Expectoration
|
142 (23.8)
|
28 (24.6)
|
30 (29.13)
|
|
Vomits
|
79 (13.3)
|
16 (14)
|
16(15.53)
|
|
Diarrhea
|
71(11.9)
|
13 (11.4)
|
15 (14.56)
|
|
Asthenia
|
52 (8.7)
|
13 (11.4)
|
9 (8.74)
|
|
Conjunctival congestion
|
23(3.9)
|
5 (4.4)
|
5 (4.85)
|
|
Abdominal pain
|
21(3.5)
|
2 (1.7)
|
2 (1.94)
|
|
Headache
|
16 (2.7)
|
3(2.63)
|
4 (3.88)
|
|
Otalgia
|
6 (1.0)
|
2 (1.75)
|
1 (0.97)
|
|
Myalgia
|
6 (1.0)
|
1(1.75)
|
1 (0.97)
|
- * z-Test: Patients positive for Bordetella pertussis vs Patients positive for RSV, p < 0.05
- Others (<10 % of cases): Ear pain, photophobia, conjunctival congestion, abdominal pain
- lymphadenopathy, fatigue, headache, myalgia, skin rash
-
a3 children died, one of them in the B.pertussis infection group
