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Volume 25, Number 6—June 2019
Research

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Seasonality, Beijing, China, 2007–2015

Jianxing Yu1, Chunyan Liu1, Yan Xiao1, Zichun Xiang, Hongli Zhou, Lan Chen, Kunling Shen, Zhengde Xie2, Lili Ren2, and Jianwei Wang2Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Beijing, China (J. Yu, Y. Xiao, Z. Xiang, H. Zhou, L. Chen, L. Ren, J. Wang); Institute of Pathogen Biology of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing (J. Yu, Y. Xiao, Z. Xiang, H. Zhou, L. Chen, L. Ren, J. Wang); Capital Medical University Beijing Children’s Hospital, Beijing (C. Liu, K. Shen, Z. Xie)

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Table 2

Clinical outcomes of children with pneumonia, by RSV positivity, Beijing, China, July 1, 2007–June 30, 2015*

Characteristic All children, n = 4,225 RSV-positive children, n = 1,270 RSV-negative children, n = 2,955 p value
Admission into PICU
 335 (7.9)
 127 (10.0)
 208 (7.0)
 0.001
Mechanical ventilation 606 (14.3) 264 (20.8) 342 (11.6) <0.001
Invasive 108 (2.6) 29 (2.3) 79 (2.7) 0.524
Tracheostomy 37 (0.9) 6 (0.5) 31 (1.0) 0.072
Endotracheal tube 99 (2.3) 25 (2.0) 74 (2.5) 0.319
Noninvasive†
 553 (13.1)
 258 (20.3)
 295 (10.0)
 <0.001
Respiratory failure 466 (11.0) 208 (16.4) 258 (8.7) <0.001
Shock 21 (0.5) 2 (0.2) 19 (0.6) 0.053
Sepsis 94 (2.2) 21 (1.7) 73 (2.5) 0.112
Death 8 (0.2) 0 8 (0.3) 0.115

*All values are no. (%). PICU, pediatric intensive care unit; RSV, respiratory syncytial virus.
†Includes continuous positive airway pressure.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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