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. 2018 Jun 7;36(24):3555–3566. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.06.036

Table 3.

Characteristics of enrolled patients aged ≥ 60 years with severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) among those influenza virus positive and among those vaccinated with at least one current season dose of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV3), multicenter case-control study in nine Latin American countries, 2013 (n = 1654).

Characteristic Test result status
Vaccination status (IIV3b)
Influenza positive
Influenza negative
p-valuea
n (%) n (%) n vaccinated Total (%) p-valuea
Overall 448 (27) 1206 (73) 859 1654 (52)
Country <0.001 <0.001
 Argentina 23 (5.1) 21 (1.7) 19 44 (43)
 Brazil 185 (41) 484 (40) 419 669 (63)
 Central America 42 (9.4) 37 (3.1) 16 79 (20)
 Chile 95 (21) 440 (36) 294 535 (55)
 Colombia 51 (11) 122 (10) 24 173 (14)
 Paraguay 52 (12) 102 (8.5) 38 154 (25)



Demographics
Gender 0.91 0.016
 Male 212 (47) 567 (47) 406 779 (52)
 Female 236 (53) 639 (53) 404 875 (46)
Age <0.001 0.005
 60–69 years 170 (38) 317 (26) 217 487 (45)
 70–79 years 151 (34) 437 (36) 279 588 (47)
 ≥80 years 127 (28) 452 (38) 314 579 (54)



Clinical characteristics
At least one preexisting condition 0.78 0.024
 Yes 335 (76) 891 (75) 616 1226 (50)
 No 107 (24) 295 (25) 176 402 (44)
Diabetes 0.24 0.039
 Yes 103 (26) 251 (23) 166 354 (47)
 No 294 (74) 840 (77) 603 1134 (53)
Cardiovascular disease 0.39 0.92
 Yes 138 (34) 399 (36) 276 537 (51)
 No 271 (66) 705 (64) 499 976 (51)
Respiratory disease 0.88 0.607
 Yes 144 (36) 388 (35) 278 532 (52)
 No 261 (64) 716 (65) 497 977 (51)
Liver disease 0.57 0.703
 Yes 4 (1.0) 15 (1.4) 9 19 (47)
 No 387 (99) 1060 (99) 749 1447 (52)
Renal disease 0.67 0.67
 Yes 33 (8.4) 99 (9.1) 66 132 (50)
 No 359 (92) 984 (914) 698 1343 (52)
Obesity 0.86 0.326
 Yes 28 (7.1) 80 (7.4) 51 108 (47)
 No 363 (93) 997 (93) 709 1360 (52)
Immunocompromised 0.57 0.58
 Yes 17 (4.3) 55 (5.1) 35 72 (49)
 No 375 (96) 1033 (95) 732 1408 (52)
Admitted to intensive care 0.12 0.95
 Yes 81 (21) 264 (25) 183 345 (53)
 No 307 (79) 801 (75) 590 1108 (53)
Deceased 0.14 0.045
 Yes 74 (17) 233 (20) 135 307 (44)
 No 358 (83) 909 (80) 638 1267 (50)
Days from illness onset to specimen collection 0.83 <0.001
 0–4 285 (73) 712 (73) 631 1214 (52)
 5–7 87 (22) 227 (23) 156 386 (40)
 8–10 16 (4.1) 37 (3.8) 23 54 (43)
Influenza RT-PCR result <0.001
 Negative 648 1206 (54)
 Positive 162 448 (36)
 Influenza A positive 126 352 (36)
  A (H1N1)pdm09 65 167 (39)
  A(H3N2) 55 141 (39)
 Influenza B positive 29 68 (43)
a

We compared the proportion of patients with selected characteristics between influenza positive and influenza negative patients and the proportion of vaccinated between strata of each characteristic using the chi-square statistic test or Fisher’s exact test when sample size was small.

b

IIV3: Trivalent Inactivated Influenza Virus Vaccine.