Epidemiology of Respiratory Pathogens in Children with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection and Impact of the Multiplex PCR Film Array Respiratory Panel: A 2-Year Study

Table 2

Prevalence of respiratory pathogens in the five age groups (n = 534).

	Total no. of samples	Total no. of negative samples (%)	Total no. of positive samples (%)	Total no. of co-infections samples
[<6 months]	292	71 (24.4)	221 (75.7)	69 (23.6)
[6 months-1 years]	114	32 (28.1)	82 (71.9)	28 (24.6)
[1-2Years]	42	11 (26.2)	31 (73.8)	13 (31)
[2–5 years]	40	8 (20)	32 (80)	3 (7.5)
[>5 years]	46	25 (53.2)	21 (45.6)	6 (13)
Total	534	147 (27.5)	387 (72.5)	119 (22.3)

(i) All group . (ii) compared with <5 y, .