Volume 9, Number 6—June 2003
Research
Children with Respiratory Disease Associated with Metapneumovirus in Hong Kong
Table 1
Fever and duration of hospitalization of 32 children admitted with HMPV with age-matched controls with RSV and influenza Aa
| Characteristics | HMPV |
RSV |
Influenza A |
p valueb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | ||
| Age (months) |
31.70 (18.40) |
31.75 (18.41) |
31.25 (18.57) |
0.99 |
| Duration of hospitalization (days) |
3.17 (1.39)d |
2.81 (1.18) |
2.44 (0.96) |
0.054 |
| Highest temperature in hospital (°C)d |
39.20 (0.59) |
39.04 (0.54) |
39.23 (0.60) |
0.44 |
| Duration of fever | 4.53 (2.23) | 3.57 (1.83) | 4.50 (1.86) | 0.12 |
aHMPV, human metapneumovirus; RSV, respiratory syncytial virus.
bp value performed using the analysis of variance (ANOVA) test.
cTwo children with HMPV infection were excluded from analysis. A 5-year-old girl newly diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia had coryzal symptoms and was febrile with nasopharyngeal aspirates positive for HMPV on day 2 of admission. Her total hospitalization stay for chemotherapy and Pseudomonas septicemia was 42 days. A 3-month-old girl was admitted for evaluation of failure to thrive and to gain weight; fever, coryza, and diarrhea developed on day 7 of hospitalization. Her total hospitalization of 10 days was also removed from analysis.
dThis excluded children who were not febrile in the hospital: three children with HMPV, seven with RSV, and four with influenza A.