Table 2.
Clinical symptoms and lower respiratory tract infection.
| Results | 15 years and younger (123 cases) | 16 years and older (34 cases) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| real-time PCR positive (57 cases) | real-time PCR negative (66 cases) | real-time PCR positive (16 cases) | real-time PCR negative (18 cases) | ||||||
| Sex | Male | 26 | 41 | 12 | 10 | ||||
| Female | 31 | 25 | 4 | 8 | |||||
| Symptoms | cases | % | cases | % | cases | % | cases | % | |
| cough | 57 | 100.0% | 66 | 100.0% | 16 | 100.0% | 16 | 88.9% | |
| fever (38 °C or over) | 54 | 94.7% | 59 | 89.4% | 16 | 100.0% | 16 | 88.9% | |
| nasal discharge | 10 | 17.5% | 26 | 39.4% | 8 | 50.0% | 9 | 50.0% | |
| sore throat | 4 | 7.0% | 3 | 4.5% | 9 | 56.3% | 12 | 66.7% | |
| headache | 4 | 7.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 3 | 18.8% | 3 | 16.7% | |
| general fatigue | 1 | 1.8% | 2 | 3.0% | 12 | 75.0% | 10 | 55.6% | |
| Lower respiratory tract infection | 55 | 96.5% | 62 | 93.9% | 16 | 100.0% | 18 | 100.0% | |