TABLE 1.
Description of the patients (230, total number of studied 2,945) included in this study.
| Epidemiological data | No. of cases (%) | No. of patients (percentage of isolation rate) | χ2 | P |
| Sex | 8.6054 | 0.0037 | ||
| Male | 148 (64.35%) | 148/1623 (9.12%) | ||
| Female | 82 (35.65%) | 82/1322 (6.20%) | ||
| Age group | 6.1753 | 0.0983 | ||
| Child | 1 (0.43%) | 1/29 (3.45%) | ||
| Adolescent | 12 (5.22%) | 12/102 (11.76%) | ||
| Adult | 196 (85.22%) | 196/2429 (8.07%) | ||
| Elderly | 21 (9.13%) | 21/385 (5.45%) | ||
| Season | 11.0292 | 0.0116 | ||
| Spring | 51 (22.17%) | 51/682 (7.48%) | ||
| Summer | 86 (37.39%) | 86/1231 (6.99%) | ||
| Autumn | 82 (35.65%) | 82/799 (10.26%) | ||
| Winter | 11 (4.78%) | 11/233 (4.72%) |