Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of the 150 patients from whom respiratory samples were collected.

Characteristic	Value
Age, Median (range), Yrs.	58 (18, 86)
Gender, Male, No. (%)	81 (54.0)
Underlying condition, No. (%)
Solid organ transplantation	70 (46.7)
Solid malignancy	27 (18.0)
Hematological malignancy	28 (18.7)
Other underlying disease needing long-term corticosteroids therapy or immunosuppressive therapy	24 (16.0)
HIV CD4 < 200/mm3	1 (0.67)
Type of solid organ transplant, No. (%)
Lung	34 (22.7)
Kidney	17 (11.3)
Liver	10 (6.7)
Heart	3 (2.0)
Combined*	6 (4.0)

^*lung + kidney (n = 2), lung + heart (n = 2), kidney + heart (n = 1), lung + kidney + heart (n = 1).