Molecular typing of human adenoviruses among hospitalized patients with respiratory tract infections in a tertiary Hospital in Guangzhou, China between 2017 and 2019

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of HAdV-positive (successfully typed) hospitalized patients in Guangzhou, China between August 2017 and October 2019. Patients were enrolled from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine

Characteristics	Number of Patients*	Number of patients positive for HAdVs	Percentage of patients positive for HAdV	P-value
Age (years)^a				< 0.05
< 5 years	1485	57	3.80%
5 - < 10 years	600	38	6.30%
10- < 19 years	169	1	0.60%
≥ 19 years	1855	3	0.20%
Gender				0.107
Male	2416	66	2.70%
Female	1693	33	2.00%

Note: * Of the 4129 patients, 20 patients had information missing on age, gender, and clinical information, and were thus excluded from the analysis. ^a Kruskal-Wallis Test was used for comparison among age groups

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