Table 2.
Viruses Identified From LCTF Residents During the 3 Consecutive Influenza Seasons (2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019)
| Year | Virus Detected |
Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoV | Flu A | Flu B | hMPV | PIV | R/E | RSV | ||
| 2016‒2017 | 18 | 16 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 84∗ |
| 2017‒2018 | 14 | 26 | 11 | 33 | 0 | 5 | 21 | 110† |
| 2018‒2019 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 45 |
| Total | 41 (17.2) | 46 (19.2) | 30 (12.6) | 50 (20.9) | 9 (3.8) | 25 (10.5) | 38 (15.9) | 239 |
Viruses were assigned to the following groups: coronaviruses (CoV including 229E, HKU1, OC43, NL63), influenza A (FluA including H3N2, H1N1), influenza B (FluB), human metapneumovirus (hMPV), parainfluenza viruses (PIV including 1, 2, 3, 4), rhinovirus/enterovirus (R/E), and respiratory syncytial virus (RSA including RSVA, RSVB).
∗
Includes 1 co-detection (PIV 1-RSV B)
†
Includes 3 co-detections (CoV NL63-FluA[H3]; CoV OC43-FluA[H3]; hMPV-R/E)