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. 2020 Jan 24;15(1):e0226817. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226817

Table 2.

PCR +ve % (N) PCR -ve % (N) p-value
Prematurity 23 (22) 32 (36) 0.25
Maternal antibiotics 26 (25) 33 (37) 0.47
Total symptomatic 83 (80) 77 (87) 0.48
Tachypnoea 43 (41) 40 (44) 0.67
Hypothermia 31 (30) 2 (2) 0.00026
Recession/retraction 25 (24) 28 (31) 0.74
Grunting 22 (21) 29 (33) 0.94
Fever 17 (16) 17 (19) 0.97
Nasal flare 11 (11) 13 (14) 0.90

Most common signs and clinical features of newborns testing PCR positive vs negative.