Volume 15, Number 5—May 2009
Dispatch
Novel Respiratory Virus Infections in Children, Brazil
Maria Carolina M. Albuquerque, Gisele P.A. Pena, Rafael B. Varella, George Gallucci, Dean D. Erdman, and Norma Santos
Table
Clinical symptoms observed among patients with a single infection, by virus, Brazil, 2006–2007*
| Clinical symptom | % Patients (no. positive/no. tested) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HCoV-HKU1 or NL63 | HMPV | HBoV | RV | FluV A | RSV | HCoV-OC43 | AdV | |
| Fever | 100 (3/3) | 80 (4/5) | 80 (4/5) | 52 (17/33) | 40 (2/5) | 100 (3/3) | 0 (0/1) | 100 (1/1) |
| Rhinorrhea | 33 (1/3) | 60 (3/5) | 60 (3/5) | 67 (22/33) | 80 (4/5) | 100 (3/3) | 0 (0/1) | 0 (0/1) |
| Cough | 33 (1/3) | 100 (5/5) | 80 (4/5) | 67 (22/33) | 40 (2/5) | 33 (1/3) | 0 (0/1) | 100 (1/1) |
| Sore throat | 0 (0/3) | 20 (1/5) | 20 (1/5) | 6 (2/33) | 60 (3/5) | 0 (0/3) | 0 (0/1) | 0 (0/1) |
| Wheezing | 33 (1/3) | 40 (2/5) | 80 (4/5) | 27 (9/33) | 20 (1/5) | 0 (0/3) | 0 (0/1) | 100 1/1) |
| Bronchiolitis | 33 (1/3) | 20 (1/5) | 0 (0/5) | 12 (4/33) | 0 (0/5) | 0 (0/3) | 100 (1/1) | 0 (0/1) |
| Pneumonia | 100 (3/3) | 0 (0/5) | 40 (2/5) | 27 (9/33) | 20 (1/5) | 0 (0/3) | 0 (0/1) | 0 (0/1) |
*HCoV, human coronavirus; HMPV, human metapneumovirus; HBoV, human bocavirus; RV, rhinovirus; FluV A, influenza virus A; RSV, respiratory syncytial virus; AdV, adenovirus.
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