Table 2.
Age distribution comparison of respiratory virus infection in hospitalized children with ARIs between 2018–2019 and 2020–2022
| Year | Age Group (Y) | Total number of cases | Percentage of virus-positive specimens [n(%)] | Total positive cases | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADV | RSV | Flu A | Flu B | PIV-1 | PIV-2 | PIV-3 | ||||
| 2018–2019 | infant (0~<1) | 2688 | 4(0.15) | 352(13.10) | 29(1.08) | 12(0.45) | 17(0.63) | 19(0.71) | 103(3.83) | 536(19.94) |
| child (1~<3) | 1223 | 10(0.82) | 76(6.21) | 19(1.55) | 7(0.57) | 10(0.82) | 5(0.41) | 46(3.76) | 173(14.15) | |
| preschool (3~<7) | 989 | 22(2.22) | 41(4.15) | 7(0.71) | 13(1.31) | 6(0.61) | 6(0.61) | 10(1.01) | 105(10.62) | |
| school age (7~<14) | 121 | 0(0.00) | 2(1.65) | 1(0.83) | 3(2.48) | 0(0.00) | 1(0.83) | 0(0.00) | 7(5.79) | |
| χ2 | 38.241 | 98.442 | 3.486 | 12.087 | 0.654 | 1.622 | 29.137 | 63.322 | ||
| P | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.286 | 0.006 | 0.848 | 0.585 | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||
| Year | Age Group(Y) | Total number of cases | Percentage of virus-positive specimens [n(%)] | Total positive cases | ||||||
| ADV | RSV | Flu A | Flu B | PIV-1 | PIV-2 | PIV-3 | ||||
| 2020–2022 | infant (0~<1) | 2311 | 2(0.09) | 443(19.17) | 13(0.56) | 8(0.35) | 9(0.39) | 4(0.17) | 56(2.42) | 535(23.15) |
| child (1~<3) | 1256 | 5(0.40) | 119(9.47) | 19(1.51) | 3(0.24) | 11(0.88) | 0(0.00) | 16(1.27) | 173(13.77) | |
| preschool (3~<7) | 1036 | 7(0.68) | 58(5.60) | 20(1.93) | 1(0.10) | 2(0.19) | 0(0.00) | 11(1.06) | 99(9.56) | |
| school age (7~<14) | 158 | 0(0.00) | 1(0.63) | 2(1.27) | 1(0.63) | 0(0.00) | 1(0.63) | 0(0.00) | 5(3.16) | |
| χ2 | 9.470 | 162.647 | 14.223 | 2.445 | 7.303 | 7.627 | 13.465 | 77.955 | ||
| P | 0.024 | 0.000 | 0.003 | 0.458 | 0.063 | 0.054 | 0.004 | 0.000 | ||