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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2015 Mar 29;3(4):585–591. doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2015.01.026

Table 2.

Infections at Diagnosis

# %
VIRAL 61 35.5

Parainfluenza 18 10.5
RSV 17 9.9
Rotavirus 16 9.3
Adenovirus 11 6.4
Influenza 4 2.3
Enterovirus 4 2.3
Varicella 3 1.7
CMV 2 1.2
Coxsackie 1 0.6
Rhinovirus 1 0.6
HSV 1 0.6

FUNGAL 96 55.8

Thrush or candida skin infection 74 43.0
Pneumocystis jiroveci* 45 26.2
Aspergillus sp. 2 1.2

BACTERIAL 24 14.0

Pseudomonas aeruginosa 8 4.7
Staphylococcus sp. 5 2.9
Mycobacterial sp. 4 2.3
Klebsiella sp. 3 1.7
Haemophilus influenzae 3 1.2
Streptococcus pneumoniae 2 1.2
Escherichia coli 2 1.2
Enterococcus sp. 2 1.2
Listeria sp. 1 0.6
Salmonella sp. 1 0.6
Streptococcus viridans 1 0.6
Moraxella sp. 1 0.6
Chlamydia sp. 1 0.6

Results indicate numbers of patients and percentage of total patients in which viral, fungal and bacterial agents were identified by historical report and/or laboratory reports.

*

In some cases, the diagnosis of Pneumocystis jiroveci was presumed by the clinical symptoms without confirmatory testing.