Table 5. Comparison of odds ratio from HMPV-positive inpatients and outpatients (children 0–4 years old) according to diagnoses and symptoms.
| Inpatients (n = 797) | Outpatients (n = 847) | |||||
| No. of positivesamples (%) (n = 95) | OR | 95% CI | No. of positivesamples (%) (n = 59) | OR | 95% CI | |
| Age/Years (median) | <1 | 2 | ||||
| Females | 33 | 23 | ||||
| Diagnosis/Symptom | ||||||
| Cough | 76 (80) | 2.59 | 1.53, 4.38 | 54 (96) | 9.96 | 2.41, 41.15 |
| Sudden onset | 29 (31) | 0.93 | 0.59, 1.48 | 51 (91) | 1.52 | 0.68, 3.42 |
| Fever/Shivers | 24 (25) | 1.28 | 0.78, 2.10 | 49 (88) | 2.26 | 1.01, 5.07 |
| Muscle pain/Headache | 1 (1) | 0.56 | 0.07, 4.36 | 28 (50) | 1.19 | 0.70, 2.01 |
| Bronchitisa | 42 (44) | 1.45 | 0.94, 2.24 | 10 (48) | 2.70 | 1.09, 6.66 |
| Fever | 21 (22) | 1.27 | 0.76, 2.14 | 9 (16) | 0.74 | 0.36, 1.54 |
| Pneumonia | 30 (32) | 1.49 | 0.93, 2.38 | 3 (5) | 1.51 | 0.44, 5.13 |
OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval,
a
Bronchitis in outpatients was requested in three out of ten seasons (number of HMPV-positive samples n = 21, number of HMPV-positive specimens with bronchitis n = 10).