TABLE 3.

Age ranges and medians, sex ratio, and clinical manifestations of viral infection for PCR-positive patients ages >6 months

Characteristic	HSV-1	HSV-2	VZV	Enteroviruses
No. of patients positive	23	28	28	34
No. of patients with the following:
Meningitis	1	26	16	33
Meningoencephalitis	0	2	0	0
Encephalitis	22	0	10	1
Not described	0	0	2	0
Age range (median age [yr]) of patients	4–80 (46)	7–50 (29)	3–79 (35)	1–74 (25)
Sex ratio (male:female)	1:1.1	1:6.0	1:0.8	1:1.6