Research Article
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%) | |
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Abbreviations. ARTI: acute respiratory tract infection; RSV: respiratory syncytial virus; HPIV-3: human parainfluenza virus 3.
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