Table 4. Upper respiratory tract symptoms and fever in the 144 neutropenic patients where NPA were obtained.
| URTS | No URTS | Fever | No fever | OR (p) | ||
| Respiratory virus | (n = 35) | (n = 109) | OR (p) | (n = 109) | (n = 35) | |
| Rhinovirus | 6 | 5a | 10a | 1b | ||
| RSV | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Adenovirus | 2 | 4a | 6a | 0 | ||
| Influenza A virus | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Influenza B virus | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Metapneumo virus | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Total (%) | 15 (43) | 11 (10) | 6.7 (<.0001) | 25 (23) | 1 (3) | 10 (<.01) |
NOTE. URTS, upper respiratory tract symptoms; OR, odds ratio; RSV, respiratory syncytial virus.
a
One case of co-infection of HRV and AdV.
b
This patient did not have URTS either.