Table 2. Clinical characteristics of severely malnourished children with pneumonia (case) on admission according to different viral etiology, at an urban hospital in Bangladesh.
Clinical Characteristics | RSV (n = 32) n (%) | Adenovirus (n = 23) n (%) | Influenza virus (n = 16) n (%) | Rhinovirus (n = 79) n (%) | HPIV (n = 22) n (%) | HMPV (n = 16) n (%) | Multiple virus (n = 63) n (%) | No No virus (n = 109) n (%) |
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Fever | 25 (78) | 16 (70) | 13 (81) | 33 (42) | 17 (77) | 10 (63) | 28 (44) | 55 (51) |
Cough | 32 (100) | 20 (87) | 16 (100) | 79 (100) | 22 (100) | 16 (100) | 63 (100) | 108 (99) |
Runny nose | 3 (9) | 4 (17) | 1 (6) | 12 (15) | 3 (14) | 2 (13) | 11 (18) | 10 (9) |
Tachypnoea | 23 (72) | 8 (35) | 7 (44) | 41 (52) | 11 (50) | 11 (69) | 25 (40) | 48 (44) |
SpO2 <90% | 7 (22) | 3 (13) | 1 (6) | 8 (10) | 2 (9) | 5 (31) | 3 (5) | 16 (15) |
Chest indrawing | 11 (34) | 6 (26) | 3 (19) | 18 (23) | 6 (27) | 4 (25) | 12 (19) | 26 (24) |
Grunting | 3 (9) | 4 (17) | 2 (13) | 7 (9) | 1 (5) | 4 (25) | 5 (8) | 12 (11) |
Head nodding | 4 (13) | 2 (9) | 1 (6) | 4 (5) | 1 (5) | 3 (19) | 3 (5) | 3 (3) |
Temperature (mean, SD) | 38.2 (0.67)) | 38.1 (0.91) | 38.4 (0.97) | 37.7 (0.90) | 38.1 (0.72) | 38.1 (1.01) | 37.7 (1) | |
Rales | 26 (81) | 7 (30) | 9 (56) | 46 (58) | 15 (68) | 13 (81) | 33 (52) | 52 (48) |
Rhonchi | 0 (0) | 1 (4) | 0 (0) | 4 (5) | 1 (5) | 0 (0) | 1 (2) | 2 (2) |
Bronchial breath sound | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (5) | 1 (6) | 2 (3) | 1 (1) |
Wheezing | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
murmur | 6 (19) | 5 (22) | 1 (6) | 17 (22) | 3 (14) | 3 (19) | 7 (11) | 20 (19) |
Chest X-ray findings | ||||||||
Normal | 1 (3) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (2) |
Infiltrate | 29 (91) | 23 (100) | 16 (100) | 74 (94) | 21 (96) | 14 (88) | 60 (95) | 102(94) |
Consolidation | 2 (6) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 3 (4) | 1 (6) | 2 (13) | 3 (5) | 4 (4) |
Other | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (1) |
Outcome | ||||||||
Inpatient death | 0 (0) | 1 (4) | 1 (6) | 4 (5) | 3 (14) | 2 (13) | 3 (5) | 10 (9) |
Post discharge death | 0 (0) | 1 (4) | 1 (6) | 2 (3) | 1 (5) | 0 (0) | 3 (5) | 4 (4) |