Performance of the Alere i RSV assay for point-of-care detection of respiratory syncytial virus in children

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of 518 study participants

N = 518	n	% of total
gender
male	292	57%
female	226	43%
age
0–5 months	212	41%
6–11 months	76	15%
12–23 months	107	21%
≥ 2 years	123	24%
duration of clinical symptoms on admission
≤ 3 days	276	53%
> 3 days	218	42%
unknown	24	5%
admission diagnosis
URTI	81	16%
LRTI	257	49%
non-respiratory	180	35%

We grouped the admission diagnoses in cases of URTI (n = 81, including URTI, otitis media and croup), LRTI (n = 257, including bronchiolitis, bronchitis and pneumonia) and non-respiratory admission diagnoses (n = 180). The latter includes children admitted for non-respiratory reasons (e.g. febrile convulsion, diarrhea) with concomitant acute RTI

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