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Volume 24, Number 7—July 2018
Dispatch

Detection of Respiratory Viruses in Deceased Persons, Spain, 2017

Ana Navascués, Itziar Casado, Alejandra Pérez-García, Aitziber Aguinaga, Iván Martínez-Baz, Yugo Floristán, Carmen Ezpeleta, and Jesús CastillaComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, IdiSNA, Pamplona, Spain (A. Navascués, A. Pérez-García, A. Aguinaga, C. Ezpeleta); CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain (I. Casado, A. Pérez-García, I. Martínez-Baz, Y. Floristán, J. Castilla); Instituto de Salud Pública de Navarra, IdiSNA, Pamplona (I. Casado, I. Martínez-Baz, Y. Floristán, J. Castilla)

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Table

Factors associated with postmortem detection of influenza and other respiratory viruses among deceased persons, Spain, 2017

Influenza virus Respiratory syncytial virus Coronavirus Rhinovirus Any respiratory virus*
Total
57
10 (18)
7 (12)
7 (12)
4 (7)
27 (47)

Sex 0.189
M 28 3 (11) 4 (14) 6 (21) 4 (14) 16 (57)
F
29
7 (24)
3 (10)
1 (3)
0
11 (38)

Age, y 0.889
65–74 7 2 (29) 0 0 1 (14) 3 (43)
75–84 16 3 (19) 3 (19) 1 (6) 0 7 (44)
>85
34
5 (15)
4 (12)
6 (18)
3 (9)
17 (50)

Major chronic conditions‡ 50 8 (16) 7 (14) 6 (12) 4 (8) 24 (48) 1.000
Nursing home residence 5 1 (20) 0 1 (20) 1 (20) 2 (40) 1.000
Hospitalization before death 12 3 (25) 2 (17) 2 (17) 3 (25) 9 (75) 0.050
Premortem diagnosis
4
3 (75)
1 (25)
0
0
4 (100)
0.044
Cause of death
Neoplasms 16 1 (6) 1 (6) 4 (25) 0 6 (38) 0.391
Nervous system condition 8 2 (25) 0 1 (13) 0 3 (38) 0.709
Circulatory system condition 14 3 (21) 2 (14) 0 1 (7) 6 (43) 0.765
Respiratory system condition 7 2 (29) 3 (43) 0 1 (14) 6 (86) 0.045
Other causes 12 2 (17) 1 (8) 2 (17) 2 (7) 6 (50) 1.000

*One person’s specimen tested positive for both coronavirus and rhinovirus.
†The 2-tailed Fisher exact test was used to compare the proportions of patients with any respiratory virus infection for the listed variables.
‡Major chronic conditions included heart disease, respiratory disease, renal disease, cancer, diabetes mellitus, cirrhosis, dementia, stroke, immunodeficiency, rheumatic disease, and morbid obesity.

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