Prevalence of human parainfluenza virus in patients with acute respiratory tract infections in Beijing, 2011–2014

• Published in: Influenza and other respiratory viruses Vol. 9; no. 6; pp. 305 - 307
• Main Authors: Shi, Weixian, Cui, Shujuan, Gong, Cheng, Zhang, Tiegang, Yu, Xiali, Li, Aihua, Chen, Meng, Luo, Ming, Huang, Fang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.11.2015; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
• Subjects: Abnormalities; Age; Asthenia; Beijing; Care and treatment; Cell number; Cough; Disease; Epidemiology; Fever; Headache; Infection; Infections; Influenza; Letter to the Editor; Leukocytes; Lung diseases; Lymphocytes; Males; Parainfluenza; parainfluenza virus; Pharyngitis; Pharynx; Respiratory diseases; Respiratory tract; Respiratory tract diseases; Respiratory tract infection; Sneezing; Surveillance; Viruses; Beijing China; China; Japan; Germany; Beijing; parainfluenza virus; epidemiology
• ISSN: 1750-2640; 1750-2659
• DOI: 10.1111/irv.12336

Clinical characteristics of patients with HPIV infections [n (%)] Parameters No. of sample HPIV HPIV‐1 HPIV‐2 HPIV‐3 HPIV‐4 Year 2011 772 70 (9·07) 28 (40·00) 8 (11·43) 27 (38·57) 7 (10·00) 2012 850 38 (4·47) 11 (28·95) 5 (13·16) 17 (44·74) 5 (13·16) 2013 1052 37 (3·52) 2 (5·40) 15 (40·54) 8 (21·62) 12 (32·43) 2014 1304 72 (5·52) 15 (20·83) 5 (6·94) 36 (50·00) 16 (22·22) Total 3978 217 (5·46) 56 (25·81) 33 (15·21) 88 (40·55) 40 (18·43) Gender Male 2214 125 (5·65) 34 (27·20) 19 (15·2) 57 (45·60) 15 (12·00) Female 1764 92 (5·22) 22 (23·91) 14 (15·22) 31 (33·69) 25 (27·17) Age group (Years) 0–5 753 67 (7·75) 8 (11·94) 12 (17·91) 37 (55·22) 10 (14·93) 6–15 519 21 (4·05) 5 (23·81) 4 (19·05) 7 (33·33) 5 (23·81) 16–25 615 26 (4·23) 12 (46·15) 2 (7·67) 7 (26·92) 5 (19·23) 26–59 1413 66 (4·67) 22 (33·333) 6 (9·09) 22 (33·33) 16 (24·24) ≥60 678 37 (5·46) 9 (24·32) 9 (24·32) 15 (40·54) 4 (10·81) Infection sites URTIs 2171 127 (5·85) 33 (25·98) 21 (16·54) 42 (33·07) 30 (23·62) LRTIs 1807 90 (4·98) 23 (25·56) 12 (13·33) 46 (51·11) 10 (11·11) 1Upper respiratory tract infection. 2Lower respiratory tract infection. Of the 3978 patients, 90 in 1807 with lower respiratory tract infection (4·98%) and 127 in 2171 with upper respiratory tract infection (5·85%) were HPIV positive. Other symptoms frequently encountered included cough (69·79%), expectoration (38·54%), sore throat (33·33%), sneezing (32·29%), asthenia (31·25%), headache (26·04%), normal leukocyte count (84·35%), low leukocyte count (3·12%), normal lymphocyte count (95·83%), with radiological pulmonary abnormalities (29·17%).