Estimated incidence of influenza-virus-associated severe pneumonia in children in El Salvador, 2008–2010
Wilfrido Clara, Julio Armero, David Rodriguez, Celina de Lozano, Luis Bonilla, Percy Minaya, Rafael Chacón, Jorge Jara, Natalia Blanco, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Joseph Bresee, Xiyan Xu, Alexander Klimov, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner & Nivaldo Linares-Perez
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Table 1. Demographic characteristics of children aged < 5 years with severe pneumonia who were or were not tested for influenza virus, San Juan de Dios Hospital, Santa Ana, El Salvador, 2008–2010
| Characteristic | 2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tested (n = 153) | Not tested (n = 342) | Overall (n = 495) | Tested (n = 217) | Not tested (n = 1150) | Overall (n = 1367) | Tested (n = 238) | Not tested (n = 454) | Overall (n = 692) | |||
| Males, no. (%) | 99 (65) | 209 (61) | 308 (62) | 117 (54) | 667 (58) | 784 (57) | 157 (66) | 253 (58) | 420 (61) | ||
| Age in months, median (IQR) | 7 (3–12) | 7 (3–12) | 7 (3–12) | 7 (2–12) | 8 (3–12) | 8 (3–12) | 6 (3–12) | 11 (5–12) | 11 (4–12) | ||
| Deceased, no. (%) | 0 (0) | 4 (1) | 4 (1) | 20 (9) | 2 (0) | 22 (2) | 9 (4) | 0 (0) | 9 (1) | ||
IQR, interquartile range.