Table 1.
Patients categorized by their dominating type of infections.
| Case patients | Control patients | All patients | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LRTI | URTI | Abscesses | Viral | Fungal | Invasive bacterial | Other | ||||||||||
| Number | 114 | 28 | 39 | 27 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 229 | ||||||||
| Female, n (%) | 87 | (76) | 23 | (82) | 27 | (69) | 20 | (74) | 2 | (33) | 4 | (80) | 5 | (50) | 168 | (73) |
| Median age, yrs. (range) | 57 | (18–83) | 45 | (21–76) | 39 | (22–76) | 43 | (16–68) | 55 | (45–63) | 40 | (21–63) | 56 | (20–67) | 50 | (16–83) |
LRTI: Patients with reported increased tendency to lower-respiratory tract infections.
URTI: Patients with reported increased tendency to upper-respiratory tract infections without reported increased tendency to lower-airway infections.