Table 2.

Symptoms and clinical diagnoses associated with human metapneumovirus infection of children

Parameter	Valuea in reference:
	29	235	72	248	253	173	63	19
No. of patients	12	25	53	49	118	26	50	26
% of patients with symptom or diagnosis
Fever	67	61	77	52	54	73	44	13
Rhinorrhea	92	80	64	88	82	77	90	2
Cough	100	72	68	90	66	92	90	16
Wheezing	83	24	51	52	*	*	56	6
Vomiting	25	*	*	10	20	*	36	4
Diarrhea	8	*	*	17	14	*	14	1
Rash	0	*	*	4	3	*	2	5
Abnormal chest radiograph	*	62	56	50	*	85	67	*
Bronchiolitis	67	*	*	59	*	23	48	*
Pneumonia	17	*	*	8	*	23	34	9
Croup	0	*	*	18	*	*	4	*
Asthma	*	*	*	14	*	27	*	*
Acute otitis media	50	*	*	37	50	15	6	*

^a*, not reported.