Volume 23, Number 2—February 2017
Research
Spread and Evolution of Respiratory Syncytial Virus A Genotype ON1, Coastal Kenya, 2010–2015
James R. Otieno
, Everlyn M. Kamau, Charles N. Agoti, Clement Lewa, Grieven Otieno, Ann Bett, Mwanajuma Ngama, Patricia A. Cane, and D. James Nokes
, Everlyn M. Kamau, Charles N. Agoti, Clement Lewa, Grieven Otieno, Ann Bett, Mwanajuma Ngama, Patricia A. Cane, and D. James Nokes
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics of cases of pneumonia caused by respiratory syncytial virus A genotypes ON1 and GA2 in children admitted to Kilifi County Hospital, September 2010–August 2015*
| Characteristic | Genotype, no. (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| ON1 | GA2 | Total | |
| Age, y | |||
| <1 | 223 (85.4) | 158 (87.3) | 381 (86.2) |
| >1 |
38 (14.6) |
23 (12.7) |
61 (13.8) |
| Sex | |||
| F | 118 (45.2) | 70 (38.6) | 188 (42.5) |
| M |
143 (54.8) |
111 (61.3) |
254 (57.5) |
| Cough | |||
| No | 5 (1.9) | 4 (2.2) | 9 (2.0) |
| Yes |
256 (98.1) |
177 (97.8) |
433 (98.0) |
| Breathing difficulty | |||
| No | 15 (5.8) | 3 (1.7) | 18 (4.1) |
| Yes |
246 (94.3) |
178 (98.3) |
423 (95.9) |
| Chest wall indrawing | |||
| No | 6 (2.3) | 6 (3.3) | 12 (2.7) |
| Yes |
255 (97.7) |
175 (96.7) |
430 (97.3) |
| Inability to feed | |||
| No | 211 (81.2) | 165 (91.2) | 376 (85.3) |
| Yes |
49 (18.9) |
16 (8.8) |
65 (14.7) |
| Oxygen saturation, % | |||
| >90 | 214 (82.0) | 144 (79.6) | 358 (81.0) |
| <90 |
47 (18.0) |
37 (20.4) |
84 (19.0) |
| Prostration/unconsciousness | |||
| No | 240 (92.0) | 172 (95) | 412 (93.2) |
| Yes |
21 (8.0) |
9 (5.0) |
30 (6.8) |
| Pneumonia status | |||
| Severe† | 203 (77.8) | 137 (75.7) | 340 (76.9) |
| Very severe‡ |
58 (22.2) |
44 (24.3) |
102 (23.1) |
| Hospital stay, d | |||
| 1–4 | 160 (62.0) | 101 (55.8) | 261 (59.4) |
| >4 |
98 (38.0) |
80 (44.2) |
178 (40.5) |
| Outcome | |||
| Survived | 250 (96.9) | 177 (97.8) | 427 (97.3) |
| Died | 8 (3.1) | 4 (2.2) | 12 (2.7) |
*The denominator was 442 samples but for some of the features it ranged from 439 to 442
†[Cough or difficulty in breathing] and chest wall indrawing
‡[Cough or difficulty in breathing] and hypoxic or prostrate/unconscious.
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