Table 3.
Distribution of different respiratory pathogens by year of detection.
| Pathogen | Surveillance year |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
| n = 30,946 | n = 1846 | n = 2081 | n = 2901 | n = 4614 | n = 5314 | n = 14,190 | |
| Positive cases |
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| No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | |
| Adenovirus | 2902 (9.4) | 125 (6.8) | 193 (9.3) | 389 (13.4) | 311 (6.7) | 433 (8.1) | 1451 (10.2) |
| HMPV | 1450 (4.7) | 66 (3.6) | 128 (6.2) | 131 (4.5) | 231 (5) | 396 (7.5) | 498 (3.5) |
| HRV | 7443 (24.1) | 438 (23.7) | 526 (25.3) | 569 (19.6) | 1019 (22.1) | 1307 (24.6) | 3584 (25.3) |
| HboV | 1920 (6.2) | 136 (7.4) | 189 (9.1) | 175 (6) | 332 (7.2) | 322 (6.1) | 766 (5.4) |
| HCoV | 1741 (5.6) | 153 (8.3) | 124 (6) | 170 (5.9) | 236 (5.1) | 266 (5) | 792 (5.6) |
| 229E CoV | 188 (0.6) | 19 (1) | 19 (0.9) | 21 (0.7) | 30 (0.7) | 26 (0.5) | 73 (0.5) |
| NL63 CoV | 378 (1.2) | 37 (2) | 23 (1.1) | 45 (1.6) | 40 (0.9) | 62 (1.2) | 171 (1.2) |
| HKU1 CoV | 334 (1.1) | 22 (1.2) | 24 (1.2) | 28 (1) | 58 (1.3) | 66 (1.2) | 136 (1) |
| OC43 CoV | 840 (2.7) | 75 (4.1) | 58 (2.8) | 75 (2.6) | 108 (2.3) | 112 (2.1) | 412 (2.9) |
| MERS-CoV | 1 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0.0) |
| PIVs | 2436 (7.9) | 119 (6.4) | 150 (7.2) | 230 (7.9) | 381 (8.3) | 450 (8.5) | 1106 (7.8) |
| PIV-1 | 569 (1.8) | 4 (0.2) | 38 (1.8) | 20 (0.7) | 135 (2.9) | 34 (0.6) | 338 (2.4) |
| PIV-2 | 237 (0.8) | 4 (0.2) | 17 (0.8) | 10 (0.3) | 54 (1.2) | 25 (0.5) | 127 (0.9) |
| PIV-3 | 1232 (4) | 86 (4.7) | 71 (3.4) | 148 (5.1) | 150 (3.3) | 291 (5.5) | 486 (3.4) |
| PIV-4 | 398 (1.3) | 25 (1.4) | 24 (1.2) | 52 (1.8) | 42 (0.9) | 100 (1.9) | 155 (1.1) |
| RSV | 6102 (19.7) | 275 (14.9) | 327 (15.7) | 542 (18.7) | 1045 (22.6) | 972 (18.3) | 2941 (20.7) |
| Enterovirus | 1202 (3.9) | 71 (3.8) | 84 (4) | 89 (3.1) | 138 (3) | 222 (4.2) | 598 (4.2) |
| Parechovirus | 341 (1.1) | 16 (0.9) | 23 (1.1) | 33 (1.1) | 74 (1.6) | 91 (1.7) | 104 (0.7) |
| M. pneumoniae | 457 (1.5) | 23 (1.2) | 32 (1.5) | 68 (2.3) | 88 (1.9) | 100 (1.9) | 146 (1) |