Table 5.
Incidence of admission to a Kenyan district hospital with “severe pneumonia” or “very severe pneumonia” and viruses identified by polymerase chain reaction of nasal wash
| Age Group | under 28 days | All <1 y |
1 to 1.99 y |
2 to 4.99 y |
All <5 y |
5 to 12.99 y |
All <13 y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denominator | 9,423 births | 8,837 | 44,538 | 104,505 | |||
| per 1,000 live births |
per 100,000 children/y |
||||||
| ‘Severe’ or ‘very severe’ pneumonia |
6.65 | 4,798 | 1,674 | 543 | 1,522 | 99 | 681 |
| Any respiratory virus | 3.79 | 2,993 | 871 | 213 | 862 | 36 | 380 |
| Respiratory syncytial virus | 2.46 | 2,038 | 455 | 85 | 535 | 15 | 233 |
| Human coronavirus 229E | 0.51 | 318 | 135 | 32 | 105 | 3 | 46 |
| Influenza A | 0.31 | 244 | 97 | 32 | 82 | 15 | 39 |
| Human parainfluenza virus | 0.10 | 212 | 48 | 11 | 57 | 6 | 26 |
| Adenovirus | 0.10 | 149 | 77 | 21 | 55 | 9 | 26 |
| Human metapneumovirus | 0.20 | 138 | 58 | 11 | 44 | 6 | 21 |
Reproduced from Berkley et al [51]