Evaluation of Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Human Parainfluenza Virus Type 3 among Hospitalized Children in Northwest of Iran

Table 2

Characteristics of the study population with ARTI disease (n = 100).

Variable	Total (N = 100)	RSV			HPIV-3
		Positive (N = 18)	Negative (N = 82)	value	Positive (N = 2)	Negative (N = 98)	value
Gender				0.967			0.205
Male	56 (56.0%)	10 (17.9%)	46 (82.1%)		2 (3.6%)	54 (96.4%)
Female	44 (44.0%)	8 (18.2%)	36 (81.8%)		0 (0.0%)	44 (100%)
Age groups (month)				0.746			0.405
≤12	53 (53.0%)	11 (20.8%)	42 (79.2%)		2 (3.8%)	51 (96.2%)
13–36	33 (33.0%)	5 (15.2%)	28 (84.8%)		0 (0.0%)	33 (100%)
37–60	14 (14.0%)	2 (14.3%)	12 (85.7%)		0 (0.0%)	14 (100%)

Abbreviations. ARTI: acute respiratory tract infection; RSV: respiratory syncytial virus; HPIV-3: human parainfluenza virus 3.