Table 3.
Analysis of positive and negative virus groups with respect to the sex and age of the children, seasonality of infection, pneumonia morphology pattern and immunophenotype of pneumonic infiltrates.
| Total | Positive virus group (n = 68) |
Negative virus group (n = 125) |
p value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | |||
| Sex | ||||||
| Female | 86 | 33 | 48.53 | 53 | 42.40 | >0.05 |
| Male | 107 | 35 | 51.47 | 72 | 57.60 | >0.05 |
| Age group | ||||||
| Up to 1 year of life | 119 | 44 | 36.97 | 75 | 63.03 | >0.05 |
| >1 year of life | 74 | 24 | 32.43 | 50 | 67.57 | >0.05 |
| Age | ||||||
| Median | 6 months | 7 months | >0.05 | |||
| Seasonality | ||||||
| Cold months | 122 | 44 | 36.07 | 78 | 63.93 | >0.05 |
| Warm months | 71 | 24 | 33.80 | 47 | 66.20 | >0.05 |
| Morphology pattern | ||||||
| Bronchopneumonia | 151 | 50 | 33.11 | 101 | 66.89 | >0.05 |
| Interstitial pneumonitis | 42 | 18 | 42.86 | 24 | 57.14 | >0.05 |
| Number of positive cells per high power field | ||||||
| Median CD4+ cells | 10 | 8 | >0.05 | |||
| Median CD8+ cells | 17 | 9 | 0.04 | |||
| Median CD14+ cells | 21.5 | 46 | 0.08 | |||
| Median CD25+ cells | 1 | 1 | >0.05 | |||
| Median CD74+ cells | 76.5 | 79 | >0.05 | |||