TABLE 1.
Characteristics and incidence of detected respiratory pathogens in hospitalized patients with lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) during the year of 2020 (February 2020 to January 2021) compare with the year of 2019 (February 2019 to January 2020).
| 2019 (n = 417) | 2020 (n = 632) | P-value | |
| Characteristics | |||
| Age, median (IQR), m | 21.5 (4.4–60.0) | 2.8 (0.5–16.2) | 0.000 |
| Male sex, n (%) | 232 (55.64) | 384 (60.76) | 0.109 |
| Pathogens | |||
| Mp | 119 (28.54) | 16 (2.53) | 0.000 |
| ADV | 89 (21.34) | 8 (1.27) | 0.000 |
| RV | 88 (21.10) | 82 (12.97) | 0.001 |
| PIV | 32 (7.67) | 23 (3.64) | 0.007 |
| RSV | 25 (6.00) | 25 (3.96) | 0.140 |
| InfB | 17 (4.08) | 1 (0.16) | 0.000 |
| H3N2 | 16 (3.84) | 0 (0.00) | 0.000 |
| MPV | 10 (2.40) | 9 (1.42) | 0.249 |
| H1N1 | 6 (1.44) | 0 (0.00) | 0.004 |
| Ch | 6 (1.44) | 10 (1.58) | 1.000 |
| Boca | 5 (1.20) | 3 (0.47) | 0.277 |
| CoV | 4 (0.96) | 8 (1.27) | 0.772 |
| InfA | 1 (0.24) | 0 (0.00) | 0.398 |
| Co-infection | 80 (19.18) | 11 (1.74) | 0.000 |
| Total | 328 (78.66) | 174 (27.53) | 0.000 |