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Volume 21, Number 12—December 2015
CME ACTIVITY - Dispatch

Life-Threatening Sochi Virus Infections, Russia

Detlev H. KrugerComments to Author , Evgeniy A. Tkachenko, Vyacheslav G. Morozov, Yulia V. Yunicheva, Olga M. Pilikova, Gennadiy Malkin, Aydar A. Ishmukhametov, Patrick Heinemann, Peter T. Witkowski, Boris Klempa, and Tamara K. Dzagurova
Author affiliations: Charité School of Medicine, Berlin, Germany (D.H. Kruger, P. Heinemann, P.T. Witkowski, B. Klempa); Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, Moscow, Russia (E.A. Tkachenko, G. Malkin, A.A. Ishmukhametov, T.K. Dzagurova); Medical State University, Samara, Russia (V.G. Morozov); Anti-Plague Stations, Sochi, Russia (Y.V. Yunicheva); Anti-Plague Stations, Novorossiysk, Russia (O.M. Pilikova); Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia (B. Klempa)

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Table 1

Comparisons in clinical outcome, age, and sex of 62 patients with Sochi virus infection, Russia*

Characteristic Total
 Sex, no. (%)
 Age, y, n/N (%)
No. (%) Median age, y (range) M, n = 48 F, n = 14 7–15 >15
No. patients
 62 (100)
 33.3 (7–57)
48 (77.4)
 14 (22.6)
6/62 (9.7%)
 56/62 (90.3)
Outcome
Died 9 (14.5) 38.6 (19–53) 7 (14.6) 2 (14.3) 0/6 9/56 (16.1)
Survived
 53 (85.5)
 32.4 (7–57)
41 (85.4)
 12 (85.7)
6/6 (100)
 47/56 (83.9)
Illness course
Severe, including fatal 37 (59.7) 33.1 (10–57) 32 (66.7) 5 (35.7) 3/6 (50) 34/56 (60.7)
Moderate, mild 25 (40.3) 33.6 (7–57) 16 (33.3) 9 (64.3) 3/6 (50) 22/56 (39.3)

*Bold type indicates statistically significant differences between sex or age groups. Comparison of binomial population proportions analysis as implemented in Statlets (NWP Associates, Inc., http://www.mrs.umn.edu/~sungurea/statlets/statlets.htm) indicates rejection of the null hypothesis (claiming that the 2 proportions are equal) at significance level of p<0.05.

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