Table 1 Pathogen profiles and distributions of viral agents among age groups
< 6 months, n = 799 | 6 months-1 year, n = 193 | 1-3 years, n = 351 | > 3 years, n = 421 | All ages, n = 1764 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No.% | Mixed | No.% | Mixed | No.% | Mixed | No.% | Mixed | No.% | Mixed | |
Positive | 414 (51.8)a | 130 (67.4) | 194 (55.3) | 162 (38.5) | 900 (51.0)a | |||||
Single | 297 (33.0)b | 92 (10.2) | 127 (14.1) | 121 (13.4) | 637 (70.8)b | |||||
Mixed | 117 (13.0)c | 38 (4.2) | 68 (7.6) | 40 (4.4) | 263 (29.2)b | |||||
IFV | 29 (3.2)b | 21 (72.4)c | 11 (1.2) | 8 (72.7) | 18 (23.1) | 15 (83.3) | 20 (25.6) | 8 (40.0) | 78 (4.4)a | 52 (66.7) |
RSV | 212 (23.6) | 69 (32.5) | 61 (6.8) | 27 (44.3) | 82 (9.1) | 29 (35.4) | 46 (5.1) | 24 (52.2) | 401 (22.7) | 149 (37.2) |
PIV | 91 (10.1) | 47 (51.6) | 42 (4.7) | 23 (48.9) | 61 (6.8) | 30 (49.2) | 42 (4.4) | 16 (38.1) | 236 (13.4) | 116 (49.2) |
ADV | 29 (3.2) | 22 (75.9) | 25 (2.8) | 10 (40.0) | 33 (3.7) | 20 (60.6) | 23 (2.6) | 9 (39.1) | 110 (6.2) | 61 (55.5) |
HPMV | 20 (2.2) | 10 (50.0) | 4 (0.4) | 3 (75.0) | 8 (0.9) | 7 (87.5) | 6 (0.7) | 1 (16.7) | 38 (2.2) | 21 (55.3) |
CoV | 7 (0.8) | 6 (85.7) | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.1) | 1 (100.0) | 2 (0.2) | 1 (50.0) | 11 (0.6) | 8 (72.7) |
HBoV | 62 (6.9) | 26 (41.9) | 19 (2.1) | 10 (52.6) | 44 (4.9) | 23 (52.3) | 24 (2.7) | 13 (54.2) | 149 (8.4) | 72 (48.3) |
HRV | 95 (20.4)d | 47 (49.4) | 17 (3.7) | 7 (41.2) | 27 (5.8) | 22 (81.5) | 44 (9.5) | 14 (31.8) | 183 (23.0)e | 90 (49.2) |