Volume 15, Number 1—January 2009
Dispatch
Polyomaviruses KI and WU in Immunocompromised Patients with Respiratory Disease
Thomas Mourez, Anne Bergeron, Patricia Ribaud, Catherine Scieux, Régis Peffault de Latour, Abdellatif Tazi, Gérard Socié, François Simon, and Jérôme LeGoff
Table
Frequency of KI polyomavirus detection in respiratory samples*
| Sample source | KIV detection in respiratory samples, no. (%) |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | ||
| HSCT patients | 8 (17.8)† | 37 (82.2) | 45 |
| Other patients | 8 (5.2) | 147 (94.8) | 155 |
| Total | 16 | 184 | 200 |
*HSCT, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
†χ2 test with Yates correction; p = 0.01.
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