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Volume 23, Number 6—June 2017
Dispatch

Febrile Respiratory Illness Associated with Human Adenovirus Type 55 in South Korea Military, 2014–20161

Hongseok Yoo, Se Hun Gu, Jaehun Jung, Dong Hyun Song, Changgyo Yoon, Duck Jin Hong, Eun Young Lee, Woong Seog, Il-Ung Hwang, Daesang Lee, Seong Tae Jeong2Comments to Author , and Kyungmin Huh2Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Armed Forces Capital Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea (H. Yoo, D.J. Hong, E.Y. Lee, K. Huh); Agency for Defense Development, Daejeon, South Korea (S.H. Gu, D.H. Song, D. Lee, S.T. Jeong); Armed Forces Medical Command, Seongnam (J. Jung, C. Yoon, W. Seog, I.-U. Hwang)

Main Article

Table 1

Epidemiologic characteristics of patients with or without identification of HAdV from respiratory specimens by PCR, South Korea, 2014–2016*

Epidemiologic characteristic Patients with HAdV, n = 447 Patients with other virus PCR negative for HAdV, n = 431 OR (95% CI) p value
Year
  Apr 2014–May 2015 274 (65.4) 145 (34.6) 3.13 (2.37–4.12)
 <0.001
  Jun 2015–May 2016
 173 (37.7)
 286 (62.3)
Rank
  Recruit or private 251 (70.5) 105 (29.5) 3.98 (2.98–5.31)
 <0.001
  PFC or higher
 196 (37.5)
 326 (62.5)
Service
  Army 423 (52.1) 391 (47.9) N\A
 <0.001
  Navy/Marine Corps 20 (50.0) 20 (50.0)
  Air Force
 1 (4.8)
 20 (95.2)
Region
  Seoul/Gyeonggi-do 376 (50.0) 376 (50.0)
0.055
  Gangwon-do 46 (65.7) 24 (34.3)
  Chungcheong-do 12 (38.7) 19 (61.3)
  Gyeongsang-do 10 (58.8) 7 (41.2)
  Jeolla-do
 3 (37.5)
 5 (62.5)
Route of visit
  Direct 330 (47.3) 367 (52.7) 2.03 (1.45–2.85)
 <0.001
  Referral
 117 (64.6)
 64 (35.4)
Age, y, mean (SD) 20.8 (2.0) 22.2 (5.0) <0.001

*Values are no. (%) except as indicated. HAdV, human adenovirus; NA, not available; OR, odds ratio; PFC, private first class.

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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the Annual Spring Meeting of the Korean Society for Chemotherapy, April 21–22, Seoul, South Korea.

2These authors contributed equally to this article.

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