Table 2.

Characteristics of the eight pneumococcal conjugate-unvaccinated children who died during hospitalization for lower respiratory tract infections where polyomaviruses WU or KI were detected.

HIV status	Virus detecteda	Age at hospitalization (months)	Gender	Diagnosis	Chest X-ray result	CRP (mg/l)	PCT (ng/ml)	Bacteria isolated from blood	P. jiroveci infection
Infected	WUPyV	13	Female	Pneumonia	Normal	2	Unknown	No	No
Infected	WUPyV	15	Male	Pneumonia	Alveolar consolidation	Unknown	Unknown	No	Not test
Uninfected	KIPyV+CoV-229E	3	Female	Pneumonia	Uninterpretable	1	Unknown	No	Yes
Uninfected	KIPyV+PIV	3	Male	Pneumonia	Alveolar consolidation	39	0.4	No	Not test
Infected	KIPyV	2	Female	Bronchiolitis	Normal	142	62.2	No	Not test
Infected	KIPyV	11	Female	Pneumonia	Unknown	258	26.8	Escherichia coli	Yes
Infected	KIPyV+CoV-OC43	2	Male	Pneumonia	Alveolar consolidation	21	0.6	No	Yes
Infected	KIPyV+hRV+hBoV	12	Female	Bronchiolitis	Unknown	371	84.3	Escherichia coli	No

CRP: C-reactive protein; PCT: procalcitonin. None of the children who died had pulmonary tuberculosis.

^aIncluding viruses previously-tested by immunofluorescence assay [Influenza A, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), parainfluenza viruses (PIV) and adenovirus] and by nested-PCR (human metapneumovirus) and newly-tested viruses [human bocavirus (hBoV), human rhinovirus (hRV), human coronaviruses (CoV)-OC43, -NL63, -HKU1 and -229E and polyomavirus-WU (WUPyV) and -KI (KIPyV)].