Table 1.
Virus detection in nose and throat swabs collected from hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients, stratified by clinical screening scores and presence of respiratory tract infection (RTI) (n=498)
| N samples (n, % positive) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No score recorded | Score 0–1 | Score ≥2 | P * | |
| All samples | 317 (54, 17.2) | 97 (15, 15.5) | 87 (25, 28.7) | 0.03 |
| All RTI samples | 197 (50, 25.4) | 53 (12, 22.6) | 83 (24, 28.9) | 0.7 |
| URTI samples | 56 (17, 30.4) | 22 (5, 22.7) | 19 (6, 31.6) | 0.8 |
| LRTI samples | 99 (19, 19.2) | 26 (6, 23.1) | 59 (14, 23.7) | 0.8 |
| U&LRTI samples | 42 (14, 33.3) | 5 (2, 40) | 5 (4, 80) | 0.1 |
*
Test of significance is the chi‐squared test.
URTI, upper respiratory tract infection; LRTI, lower respiratory tract infection; U&LRTI, upper and lower respiratory tract infection.