Table 2. Clinical and epidemiologic features of 5 patients involved in outbreak of ANDV infection, Chile, 2011*.

Feature	Case-patient A†	Case-patient B	Case-patient C	Case-patient D	Case-patient E
Age, y/sex	73/M	31/F	53/F	60/F	34/M
Occupation	Farmer	Nursing assistant at hospital	Teacher	Cleaning personnel at hospital	Car mechanic
Relationship to other case-patients	Husband of case-patient C	Health care provider for case-patient A	Wife of case-patient A	Health care assistant for case-patient A	Husband of case-patient B
Date of symptom onset	Feb 21	Mar 17	Mar 18	Mar 18	Apr 2
Date of hospitalization	Feb 24	Mar 20	Mar 20	Mar 22	Apr 3
Signs and symptoms
Fever	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Respiratory symptoms‡	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Gastrointestinal symptoms§	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Other symptoms¶	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mechanical ventilation, d	28	8	0	1	6
Hospitalization, d	30	22	12	1	17
Outcome	Died	Survived	Survived	Died	Survived
Days from environmental exposure to onset of symptoms	16	25–26	41	7–45	41–42
Days from exposure to hantavirus case-patient to onset of symptoms	NA	19–21	22–25	18–20	13–27
Laboratory test results on admission
Platelet count, × 103/μL	51	56	108	101	147
Leukocytes, × 103 cells/μL	4,67	5,46	1,21	3,92	11,46
Hematocrit, %	52	39	39	45	44
Lymphocytes, %	12	7	39	19	7
Immunoblasts, %	Yes	Yes	Yes	NR	Yes
IgM/IgG for ANDV	Negative#	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive
RT-PCR ANDV in blood cells	ND	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive

*ANDV, Andes virus; NA, not applicable; NR, not reported; RT-PCR, reverse transcription PCR; ND, not done.
†Index case-patient.
‡Dry cough, dyspnea, cyanosis, crepitus.
§Vomiting, diarrhea, nausea.
¶Severe headache, meningeal signs, myalgia, arthralgia, conjunctival infection, chills, photophobia, facial edema.
#On hospital admission. Repeat testing after 24 days yielded positive results.