Research Article
Molecular Analysis of Human Metapneumovirus Detected in Patients with Lower Respiratory Tract Infection in Upper Egypt
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients.
| | Patients’ characteristics | (%) |
| | Age in years () | | | 0–14 | 69 () | | 15–34 | 88 () | | 35–60 | 275 () | | >60 | 88 () | | Sex | | | Girls | 31 () | | Boys | 38 () | | Female | 178 () | | Male | 273 () | | Geographical area | | | Upper Egypt | | | Bani Suif | 6 | | Menia | 27 | | Assiut | 307 | | Sohag | 62 | | Qena | 47 | | Luxor | 18 | | Aswan | 32 | | New Valley | 9 | | Red Sea | 7 | | Lower Egypt | | Suez
| 3 | | Alexandria | 1 | | Yemeni Republic | | | Yemeni Republic | 1 | | Site of admission | | | Pediatric outpatient clinic | 69 () | | Chest outpatient clinic | 82 () | | Chest department (inpatient) | 264 () | | Chest intensive care unit (inpatient) | 105 () | | Clinical diagnosis | | | Bronchopneumonia | 106 () | | Acute bronchitis | 73 () | | Bronchial asthma with infectious exacerbation | 72 () | | Bronchiolitis | 29 () | | Lobar pneumonia | 28 () |
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