Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of the patients with antiviral therapy started <24 h from the onset of varicella (group A) and of patients with antiviral therapy started >24 h from the onset of disease or without antiviral therapy (group B)

	Group A	Group B
Number of patients	13	41
Age median (range)	3.85 years (6 months-10 years)	3.56 years (2 weeks-9.5 years)
Sex (Male%/Female%)	53.8%/46.2%	51.2%/48.8%
Number of patients with a pre-existing health problem (%)	15.3%	12.2%