Research Article
Prescription Surveillance and Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing to Identify Pathogens during Outbreaks of Infection
Table 2
Numbers of pathogens detected by PCR according to age.
| | ć | Infants | Children | Elementary school pupil | Minor (junior high school student or older) | Adult |
| | Enterovirus | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | Mycoplasma pneumoniae | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | | Parainfluenza 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | Rhinovirus | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | Rhinovirus + parainfluenza 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Rhinovirus + RSV-A | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Rhinovirus + RSV-A and RSV-B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | RSV-A | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | RSV-B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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