Research Article
Procalcitonin Identifies Bacterial Coinfections in Vietnamese Children with Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus Pneumonia
Table 1
Patients’ characteristics between patients with RSV pneumonia alone and RSV pneumonia with bacterial coinfections.
| | RSV alone () | RSV with bacterial coinfections () | value |
| | Age (months) () | | | 0.67 | | Male, (%) | 29 (49.2) | 7 (63.6) | 0.38 | | Clinical features | | | | | Fever | 22 (37.3) | 9 (81.8) | <0.01 | | Rapid pulse rate | 32 (54.2) | 6 (54.6) | 0.99 | | Runny nose | 16 (27.1) | 3 (27.3) | 0.99 | | Wheezing | 53 (89.8) | 9 (81.8) | 0.44 | | Diarrhea | 14 (23.7) | 2 (18.2) | 0.69 | | Vital signs () | | | | | Respiratory rate (/min) | | | 0.87 | | Pulse rate (/min) | | | 0.83 | | Body temperature (°C) | | | <0.01 | | SpO2 | | | 0.82 | | Initial laboratory findings (median, IQR) | | | | | WBC (×103/mm3) | 9.5 (7.1-12.1) | 11.2 (5.4-17.3) | 0.62 | | Lymphocyte (%) | 4.6 (2.9-6.3) | 3.4 (2.2-9.0) | 0.46 | | Procalcitonin (ng/ml) | 0.3 (0.1-1.1) | 2.3 (0.2-4.2) | <0.01 | | High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (mg/dl) | 1.5 (0.6-4.9) | 5.7 (1.7-23.6) | 0.04 | | PaO2 | 69.0 (50.0-82.0) | 64.9 (54.0-92.0) | 0.99 | | Interleukin-6 (pg/ml) | 2.0 (1.5-6.1) | 12.4 (3.0-82.8) | 0.07 | | Deaths after hospitalization, (%) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (18.2) | <0.01 |
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SD: standard deviation; SpO2: oxygen saturation; WBC: white blood cell.
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